[PLUG-TALK] Happy news!

Bill Barry wabarry at gmail.com
Fri Oct 25 17:37:17 UTC 2019


On Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 10:28 AM <alan at clueserver.org> 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.
>
> They were 8" disks. I don't remember the capacity. I didn't know anyone
> even made those anymore. I have not seen one in use in this century.
>

They probably saved a lot of money by leap frogging right over 5 1/4" disks.

>
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