[PLUG-TALK] Dig out all your old computers, floppy drives, and disks: the federal government needs them.

[Aaron Burt]

On 2016-05-26 10:40, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Today's non-political depressing news:
> 
> "Report: U.S. Nuclear System Relies On Outdated Technology Such As 
> Floppy
> Disks"

Have they set the Permissive Action Codes to something other than 000000 
yet?

>    It gets worse: the Treasury Dept. and Social Security Administration 
> are
> also working on Commodore PETS and Apple Is.

Oh, I believe it for sure.  Old software never dies as long as someone's 
usefulness depends on it.

...or for more technical reasons:
http://jalopnik.com/this-ancient-laptop-is-the-only-key-to-the-most-valuabl-1773662267

I'm sure there are perfectly valid and/or regulatory compliance reasons 
to keep the hardware alive rather than run in emulation, and I'm also 
sure that Oracle or LockMart would be happy to reverse-engineer a 
replacement in 5 years for just under $1B.