The floppy disks are used as a part of the section's IBM Series/1 computer (a system from the '70s). The good news? The agency plans to update the ancient system in 2017, according to the GAO report.

The United States nuclear program still relies on computer systems that use 8-inch floppy disks, technology that went obsolete nearly 40 years ago, according to a report issued by the government ...

Spinnaker Software developed this set of programs for use with IBM-compatible computers. The eight programs were a word processor, a database, a spreadsheet, a desktop organizer, grapics, a ...

The golden days of the floppy disk have long gone by. In fact, most computer users these days no longer use and even see one. For youngsters, floppy disks were used to store data way before the ...

The key, it turns out, to keeping our nuclear weapons safe, secure, and ready for use all these years has been an IBM Series/1 computer and floppy disks, according to an AFP report published this ...

It was only in 2019 that the Pentagon stopped using 1970's IBM Series-1 computers - complete with eight-inch floppy disks - as part of its nuclear weapons systems.

Years after computer floppy disks went the way of the dodo for most users, the U.S. Air Force still employed 8-inch floppy disks for a few things — like passing on orders to launch the nation ...

What is incredibly scary is that this system runs on an IBM Series/1 Computer and uses 8-inch floppy disks. Yes, we are not talking about 3.5" disks or even 5.25" disks.

Even the IBM computers are relics that wow customers young and old. They run the same floppy disks from the 1990s, Harding told The Washington Post last year.

The 8-inch storage data device inside 1970s-era floppy disks. IBM Specifically, the DoD would pop one or more of these disks into an IBM Series/1 Computer, a commercial version of which is shown ...

Why the floppy disk just won’t die A surprising number of industries, from embroidery to aviation, still use floppies.