Many government agencies, U.S. and international alike, have a reputation for sometimes using tools that are horribly out of date. But according to a report from a congressional watchdog agency, a ...

The United States nuclear program still relies on computer systems that use 8-inch floppy disks, technology that went obsolete nearly 40 years ago, according to a report issued by the government’s ...

Spinnaker Software developed this set of programs for use with IBM-compatible computers. The eight programs were a word processor, a database, a spreadsheet, a desktop organizer, grapics, a ...

The golden days of the floppy disk have long gone by. In fact, most computer users these days no longer use and even see one. For youngsters, floppy disks were used to store data way before the era of ...

The U.S. military is using technology developed in the 1970s and implemented during President Gerald Ford’s administration to coordinate some of the functions of our nuclear arsenal. The key, it turns ...

Sometimes you read something and you can't quite believe it and then you read it again and get scared. This is what happened when I read through the United States Government Accountability Office's ...

Years after computer floppy disks went the way of the dodo for most users, the U.S. Air Force still employed 8-inch floppy disks for a few things — like passing on orders to launch the nation’s ...

A new government report paints a disquieting picture of the computer systems used to run the United States. The 87-page report, which the Government Accountability Office (GAO) gave the scolding title ...

In brief: If you're old enough to know that floppy disks are more than just save icons, nostalgically recalling pulling down write-protect tabs, scribbling on the labels, and those storage boxes with ...

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...