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06-20-2017, 04:57 PM
Department of Defense still uses 8-inch floppy disks and other disturbing details from Jared Kushner's speech
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I don’t care what Jared Kushner’s voice sounds like (http://mashable.com/2017/06/19/jared-kushner-voice-speaks/). It’s what he said that blew me away.
The globetrotting head of the White House ****** of American In**vation broke his cipher-like silence on Monday to offer a stunning outline of the federal government's recidivistic tech tendencies.
Chief among them is that the U.S. Department of Defense still uses 8-inch floppy disks, a stored media tech**logy retired by most businesses back in the early 1980s. At my first job at a tiny weekly newspaper in 1986, we used 8-inch floppies and a Digital Equipment Corp. system to back up the paper’s terminal-based production system.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/19/dod-using-8-inch-floppies-per-kushner/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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I don’t care what Jared Kushner’s voice sounds like (http://mashable.com/2017/06/19/jared-kushner-voice-speaks/). It’s what he said that blew me away.
The globetrotting head of the White House ****** of American In**vation broke his cipher-like silence on Monday to offer a stunning outline of the federal government's recidivistic tech tendencies.
Chief among them is that the U.S. Department of Defense still uses 8-inch floppy disks, a stored media tech**logy retired by most businesses back in the early 1980s. At my first job at a tiny weekly newspaper in 1986, we used 8-inch floppies and a Digital Equipment Corp. system to back up the paper’s terminal-based production system.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/19/dod-using-8-inch-floppies-per-kushner/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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