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The Strategic Automated Command and Control System transmits orders and coordinates information across the US nuclear missile system. It does so using technology that became obsolete during the Reagan administration.
The US Department of Defense system runs on IBM Series/1 computers introduced in 1974 and discontinued in 1988. It uses 8-inch floppy disks produced in the 1970s that hold 80 kilobytes of data each. A single one of the flash drives in the bottom of your desk drawer holds the equivalent of 3.2 million such disks’ worth of data.
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The US Department of Defense system runs on IBM Series/1 computers introduced in 1974 and discontinued in 1988. It uses 8-inch floppy disks produced in the 1970s that hold 80 kilobytes of data each. A single one of the flash drives in the bottom of your desk drawer holds the equivalent of 3.2 million such disks’ worth of data.
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