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Re:Australians Scour Desert for Dangerous Radioactive Capsul... by twawaaay on Sunday January 29, 2023 @07:56PM (#34574557)
Or in a wall of a building: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accide...
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Re:Australians Scour Desert for Dangerous Radioactive Capsul... by wonderwonder on Sunday January 29, 2023 @09:58PM (#34575338)
What a terrible story
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Re:Australians Scour Desert for Dangerous Radioactive Capsul... by qikInNdOutReply on Monday January 30, 2023 @03:09AM (#34577098)
Thats a horror story, but the actual horror is society picking not up on this until its too late for alot of lifes. This is one of the incidents, that a centralized health system with data mining could have picked up easily.
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Re:Australians Scour Desert for Dangerous Radioactive Capsul... by h0l0cube on Monday January 30, 2023 @05:34AM (#34578024)
Both of those stories are from the 80s, when hard drives were the size of washing machines and an internet connection was an unlikely thing to have outside the military and larger scientific institutions (e.g., CERN).
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Re:Australians Scour Desert for Dangerous Radioactive Capsul... by floxy on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:59PM (#34588596)
The original IBM PC/XT had a 10 MB internal 5-1/4" hard drive in 1983.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT

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Re:Australians Scour Desert for Dangerous Radioactive Capsul... by h0l0cube on Monday January 30, 2023 @08:26PM (#34589577)
I'm aware that small form factor hard drives existed at this time, they just didn't have the capacity for a medical database.
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