Re: [NF] What’s controlling U.S. nukes? 8-inch flop py disks

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Fri, 27 May 2016, at 07:00 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > At 05:23 2016-05-27, Dave Crozier DaveC@Flexipol.co.uk wrote: > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan > >Sent: 27 May 2016 13:22 > >To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com > >Subject: [NF] What's controlling U.S. nukes? 8-inch floppy disks > > > >http://www.marketwatch.com/story/whats-controlling-us-nukes-8-inch-floppy-di... > > > > >Scary but not entirely unexpected! > > Why is it scary for a system to work for years and > years? Would you prefer that it break? > > >Thinking about that I wonder if the VFP USAF logistics program is > >still running. > > JFAST, and apparently so. I wonder if it is still mainly > written in VFP. If so, would you find it scary? > > The idea that just because something is older that there is > something wrong with continuing to use it is one that I think needs > to be stomped on. > > Sincerely, > > Gene Wirchenko > > [excessive quoting removed by server]