26 May
2016
26 May
'16
4:18 p.m.
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 4:27 AM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
A friend notice this in the news, I heard it mentioned
on the radio this morning too:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36385839
extract:
The report said that the Department of Defence systems that co-ordinated
intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers and tanker support aircraft
"runs on an IBM Series-1 Computer - a 1970s computing system - and uses
eight-inch floppy disks".
It was a few years ago now and it's third hand - but I was told that
the US Navy still maintained a shop dedicated exclusively to repairing
IBM SLT modules... can't vouch for the veracity of that; perhaps
someone else can.
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