• SuperIce@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The US nuclear arsenal still runs on floppy disks.

    EDIT: The Air Force claimed they finished a migration from 8-inch floppy disks to solid state storage in June 2019, so my info is slightly out of date. They did use floppy disks for over 50 years though (1968-2019).

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      1 year ago

      The thing with random internet replies: you never know if it’s true (you could look it up, but that would make life to easy).

      So this is or:

      • really scary
      • unbelievable smart cause nobody knows how to use them
      • not true

      Probably there are some other options but I’ll go for a combination of the first and second one and hoping for the third