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. 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.*
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