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“The Air Force completed a replacement of the aging SACCS floppy drives with a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution in June,” Sounds like flash d

“The Air Force completed a replacement of the aging SACCS floppy drives with a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution in June,” Sounds like flash drives. Perhaps even USB.

kirse 3y ago
Pretty sure they went with the higher capacity Iomega Zip Drives.
- deleted 3y ago
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- Jeraimee 3y ago
  Someone has to stand a foot away to catch the disk as its hurled out when ejected.
- fjd 3y ago
  So funny enough, I checked and those are actually still for sale brand new. I feel old.
bcx5k15 3y ago
> secure solid-state Or a CD
tyingq 3y ago
The sources I could find say that they didn't replace the computers accessing the data. They are still IBM Series/1 [1] machines. So whatever is being used, there has to be some kind of floppy (or tape, etc) emulator in front of it. It's likely the floppy drive in question was an IBM 23FD "Minnow"[2]. The capacity and timeframe matches up. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Series/1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Series/1 [2] https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=885 https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=885
- uni_rule 3y ago
  The US military after using 37 different shell companies to purchase hundreds of gotek floppy emulators and 5.25" to 3.5" drive brackets: > Damn I'm good at modernization
  - tyingq 3y ago
    Well, they will also need 8" to 5.25".
- briffle 3y ago
  those were 16-bit machines so perhaps they have to find aging flash drives smaller than 2GB?
matja 3y ago
EPROMs, and the UV lamp is locked in a cupboard with a highly secure combination lock