Thursday, May 26, 2016

More on legacy systems

This article from CNN describes the 8" floppy disks (note even 5.25" !!!) used in the control of U. S. nuclear missiles.

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Legacy Systems

Extremetech reports here on the Compaq laptop required to service one of the early McLaren supercars.  It seems they relied on a proprietary hardware interfce.