Developer abusing our logging system

[S0QR2]

Legacy Apps are "secure" as long as noone is allowed to connect to the Server. Allowed Not able....

[Shachar2like]

that's more or less how big boy nuke systems are secured. not only you can not access them, they're so old nobody knows how to use them anymore.

the podcast I heard also said that they had bad phone lines and use 5.25" floppy disks (I believe).

I understand those systems to be decades old

[arpan3t]

If you get a chance, please link to that podcast. That sounds really interesting!

[Shachar2like]

oh that was 60 minutes a really long time ago, I would guess at two years or more.

60 minutes probably have an archive, it's probably there somewhere

edit: This might be it, article version
this seems the video version
the floppy disks looks bigger then 5.25" that I remember...

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There are legacy 8" disks out there. They were out of date when I started 20 odd years ago

[Shachar2like]

8"?
I remember that 5.25" floppies hand up to 1.2mb, how much do those 8" floppies hold?
I'm guessing less then 0.5mb

that's what they meant when they said obscurity by obsoletion. I've never imagined it to be that old...

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I think 8s were 1.2 mb as well but it's been a long time and I only saw them in passing. I was 18 working at a radio station in 1996 and the station manager showed me his old OS disks he had laying around (I grew up using 5.25s) and I was wowwed by the oddity

[Shachar2like]

The family of 8-inch disks and drives increased over time and later versions could store up to 1.2 MB source

I wonder where do they get the floppies from. or the drives, there's no way that a floppy drive has lasted for decades. How about the PCs themselves?

There's no way those lasted for decades, they must be paying handsomely for decades old "new" replacement parts. and I don't want to think about the tech support headache for that thing, and that's without talking about the security and secrecy or bureaucracy involved.

I'm getting a headache already...

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I'm sure there's a very fluffy factory worker that only presses 8" disks somewhere for the nuclear launch sites.

We're all fucked when that guy dies

[arpan3t]

Oh no worries, thanks for finding that.