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10 Organizations That Use Horribly Outdated Tech by Nobody: 10:29am On Aug 10, 2016
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1.Department Of Defense’s Tech
Nuclear missiles are the most powerful weapon ever invented by human hands, so you’d think that the military would keep them as technologically up to date as possible, right? Not so fast, buddy. As revealed on a recent episode of 60 Minutes, the launch controller for the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles is a computer so old, it still reads data off 8-inch floppy disks. Introduced commercially in 1971, those floppies were obsolete by the end of the 1980s.
2.Office of Personnel Management
One of the most vital reasons we need to keep technology up to date is the growing threat of information warfare. Hackers from China and other nations are becoming increasingly adept at penetrating sensitive systems and absconding with information, and when they got into the Office of Personnel Management’s files in 2014 they took home the birth dates, Social Security numbers, medical records, and more from thousands of government employees and contractors.
7.New York City Subways
If you’ve ever wondered why New York’s subway trains never seem to run on time, it’s because much of the technology that manages the lines goes all the way back to the 1930s. On many of the city’s lines, dispatchers track the movements of trains with a massive light board, recording positions by hand with a pencil and paper and manually operating a system of relays to switch tracks and turn lights on and off. The machinery is incredibly difficult to maintain, and when something brhttp://thetechlicense.com/2016/06/10-organizations-horribly-tech/
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