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Alpha particles? If you're talking about an EMP, the craps underground and you can shield modern equipment too.
If this also has an OS from the 60s, I have to wonder what happens when the geezers that know the details of how everything works keel over?
I can already see they try to launch a nuke and nothing happens, then they have to wake up grandpa and he tells them to just copy the data over to another floppy since the thirty year old one degraded, and two and a half hours later they try again and get a PC Load Letter error and the entire North American continent is already destroyed in a nuclear holocaust.
Precisely!
Skynet can't take over what it can't reach
Older the equipment, less chance of it frying due to alpha particles. There is wisdom in spaced logic circuitry.
I have to wonder though, why floppies? Why not tapes?
Those old 8" floppy disks have really low density and are quite reliable. Even the 5.25" are quite good.
Security through... antiquity?
Anyone else think of Battlestar? Old technology to secure the future!
The same reason the battle star Galactica survived, old tech that the Cylons could not infiltrate.
Alpha is helium particle release
Alpha is harmless.
So, to launch a nuke, you press option 3. Enter launch code. Wait for the floppy to load.....
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Please insert disk 2....
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WTF?! WHERE IS DISK 2?!
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Found it.
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Loading disk 2....
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17 minutes later.
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Press any key to launch..
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Nuke launched.
Floppies became obsolete to me when it was faster to email the file to myself than it was to copy from the disk (even from the disk sitting on the desk..). File transfer speeds suck on floppies.
Secure, though.
Piston engines were designed prior to the 20th century, and they're still in use, despite the invention of the turbine,.....
Those old 8" floppy disks have really low density and are quite reliable. Even the 5.25" are quite good. I have plenty of old PC games on 5.25" floppy disks (Master of Orion, Master of Magic, Ultima 3-7, System Shock, to name a few) and they still work just fine.
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Loading disk 2...
*disk drive makes unholy noises*
Cannot read from disk 2...
Please insert disk 2...
Oh shit.
Well it's not like it's "insert disk 2 to launch nuke"
Say what? I've been doing USB installs on BIOS enabled RAID arrays since Vista first came out which was like 6-7 years ago. Even before that, you could simply build an image with RAID drivers and the like already included.It wasn't until the latest round of BIOS's and Windows 7 that you could install a RAID 0 array as you boot drive and not need a "floppy" disk (though a CD or USB could be configured to fake being one) to load the drivers for Windows install.
So I only unplugged and put away my floppy drive in this most recent build.
Give me the floppy and I will have the President grant you full immunity.
You and I know very well that the reason this isn't replaced is because no one wants to be responsible for approving replacement hardware for such a critical system.
Its all about the red tape and the technical incompetence of the vast government wing responsible for its upkeep
its far simpler to continue the status quo even if it means spending $50K to buy five of some old part out of production for 50 years and simply say "hey that's how much it costs" than to rock the boat and suggest a complete overhaul.
Alpha is helium particle release
Beta is electron escape through neutron decay
Gamma if electromagnetic radiation (not all of it ionizing)
Alpha is harmless.
one might say helium being harmful is laughable.