In the olden days… When you need a program or application it has to get installed some how. We used to just copy the file over from floppies or tape (before that software for me was delivered on cassette tape or cartridge). That was because we only needed the executable. There weren’t supporting files for …

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Setting Henry Ford is credited with saying “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants, so long as it is black." about customer choices on buying the model T. He wasn’t being a jerk so much as understanding the value of limited choices in delivering a mass produced product in large …

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I previously posted this in 2016 and posting the article again as the details are still valid today. In Atomic Floppies we see how a critical part of the national defense infrastructure rests on 40 year old, 8" floppy drives and disks (I’m guessing the actual disks are a little newer). The first question …

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I previously posted this in 2016 and am posting the article again as the details are timeless. Reading the morning news I saw an article that piqued my interest. I had heard in previous news that the Air Force relied on floppy disks for some of the nuclear launch systems. Today TIME magazine took them to task on it in …

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Working on this blog has been on my “To Do” list for literally years. I spent a lot of time starting the first incarnation. I talked to friends and looked at probably every option for hosting, content creation and management. Over time I wasn’t happy with the options for creation and display to the …

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