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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Nuclear silos.. is that early dos system I believe?

As long as things are not connected and not trying to add newer stuff , what's the problem?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stuck? What can you do that I can't on Windows 7?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Read an article, apparently - it explains why the old systems are still in use.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Ancient industrial machines use ancient windows computers. This has been known forever. There's a whole niche industry of very expensive ram and hard drives and other components keeping this industry going

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah man. Details are going to be fuzzy here, but I think it was only in recent memory where Boeing upgraded the planes in Japan to no longer need floppy disks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yes i still use floppy disks regularly for my cnc plasma table

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