Monday, April 28, 2014

Floppy Disks and Nuclear Missiles

CBS's 60 Minutes program made a big deal out of old equipment in our nuclear weapons complex:

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/floppy-disks-and-nuclear-missiles/

If it still works, what's the big deal?

I served on a nuclear submarine that still had pneumatic amplifiers and controllers for its nuclear systems. They were obsolete, but they still worked.

Put a sock on it, Lesley, and get a real job.

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