[PLUG-TALK] Happy news!

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Thu Oct 24 23:31:42 UTC 2019


On 10/24/19 4:09 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Headline in the NY Times:
> 
> "Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks"
> 
> But they don't say whether the missile command is still running Windows 98
> or has upgraded to Windows 7. Nor do they tell us whether those were 8",
> 5.25" or 3.5" floppy disks.

Assuming this article is referring to the same thing, it's 8".

<https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/air-force-finally-retires-8-inch-floppies-from-missile-launch-control-system/>

galen
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