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...