vintage computers in active use

[Toby Thain]

On 2016-05-26 10:48 PM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> Toby Thain wrote:
>
>> On 2016-05-26 3:17 PM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
>>> Fred Cisin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 26 May 2016, Brent Hilpert 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".
>>>>
>>>> "This system remains in use because, in short, it still works,"
>>>> Pentagon spokeswoman Lt Col Valerie Henderson told the AFP news agency.
>>>>
>>>> And, THAT is why it MUST be replaced immediately by "modern" hardware
>>>> and software, to put an end to that.  Windows10 can change that.
>>>>
>>> Since Windows 10 is out, many security aware people here in germany
>>> dropping Microsoft Software if they can and you think it would be a good
>>> idea to control nuclear wheapons with this kind of crap?
>>>
>>> Nothanks. This game is over.
>>
>> In case you missed it:
>>
>>
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclearpower-cyber-germany-idUSKCN0XN2OS
>>
>> It's only a matter of time.
>>
>> --Toby
>>
>
> Yes, this is only one of the reasons I don't like Windows, but the
> germanys government has decided to shut down any nuclear plant anyways
> after the fukushima desaster.
>
> But controlling weapons wth Windoze would be another story.
>

Not necessarily true. Few weapons (perhaps none, but I'm not an expert 
on nuclear physics) can do as much harm as a failed nuclear plant.

--Toby


> Regards,
>
> Holm
>
>