Posted on 05/26/2016 6:02:18 AM PDT by C19fan
Maybe they use the '80s flick "War Games" as a training film, too.
The U.S. Defense Department is still using — after several decades — 8-inch floppy disks in a computer system that coordinates the operational functions of the nation's nuclear forces, a jaw-dropping new report reveals.
The Defense Department's 1970s-era IBM Series/1 Computer and long-outdated floppy disks handle functions related to intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers and tanker support aircraft, according to the new Government Accountability Office report.
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Then, in my response to him in my post #44, I tried to reply in kind to him with what I considered a humorous reply, showing him a way to "out-boast" the military by pointing out to them the areas where his 1-inch thumb drive is superior to the military's 8-inch floppies.
I guess my attempt at humor there was not a successful one (as shown by the two responses I got in reply to my post #44), but hopefully this post should clear up the question you asked about exactly what I was actually trying to claim in my post 44.
I used my Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem to get to the university’s Vax-11. The 40-byte screen on the TV was not fun, though. When on campus, it was through the VT-101.
Much of those systems are probably old Digital VAX machines, possibly even PDP-11’s. Those are unhackable.
Well, I shouldn’t say that but VERY difficult because there are only a few select of us that even would know how to anymore.
I still make a living managing OpenVMS clusters (Itanium and Alphas) for a defense contractor. :)
Oh yea and Charon VAX (virtual OS on Intel hardware)
As long as someone changes the default FIELD password :)
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