Would you trust your nuclear missiles to a floppy disk?
Friday, May 27, 2016 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
What can you do with a floppy disk these days? Apple retired floppy drives with its original 1998 iMac, PC manufacturer Dell followed suit in 2003 and now they are but a distant memory. But, according to a recent US government public accounts committee report, legacy computer systems using floppy disks are still used today for controlling part of the US Nuclear Command.