Re: US nuclear force still uses floppy disks
The why has a lot to do with the way things are bought by government systems...always the low bidder,so at times the get incompatible systems..when I was on medicade many years back,my recert letter was sent to the wrong address,and it was cut off. I had to go to the office to get it back,they issued me a new card,BUT that did not work,so back to the office. The supervisor had to print out my data from one machine and re-enter it in another because the two systems did not "Talk" to each other because they were from different Companies. I was not at all surprised at the whole floppy thing.
The why has a lot to do with the way things are bought by government systems...always the low bidder,so at times the get incompatible systems..when I was on medicade many years back,my recert letter was sent to the wrong address,and it was cut off. I had to go to the office to get it back,they issued me a new card,BUT that did not work,so back to the office. The supervisor had to print out my data from one machine and re-enter it in another because the two systems did not "Talk" to each other because they were from different Companies. I was not at all surprised at the whole floppy thing.
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