a suspicious package was found.
The 3.5 inch disks that the Obamacare.com code is contained on....
7inch black floppies and holarith cards.
(Remember those?)
I did some programming back in the 60s on punch cards but that was the IBM era. Hollerith was a bit even before that I think.
IIRC, they were 8 inch floppies.
According to the NY Slimes, the ObamaCare website consists of 500 million lines of code (supposedly about five times the size of a typical large bank's codebase). You can't even store anywhere close to 500m bits on a 3.5-inch floppy, much less lines of code.
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” — Mr Bill