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Dec 25 2019

The Defense Department finally advanced into the 21st Century this past year. Management of the nation's nuclear arsenal by a system called the Strategic Automated Command and Control System or SACCS will no longer rely on the 8-inch floppy discs it has been using until just months ago. You remember those, don't you? Maybe you had a TRS-80 Model II with 64k of memory and a separate disc holder the size of a toaster. Under a modernization program begun by President Obama and, uniquely, not cancelled by President Trump, SACCS says it has converted to "a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution".


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