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Re:Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Flop... by tyingq on Friday August 18, 2023 @10:57AM (#37176571)
The sources I could find say that they didn't replace the computers accessing the data. They are still IBM Series/1 [1] machines. So whatever is being used, there has to be some kind of floppy (or tape, etc) emulator in front of it.

It's likely the floppy drive in question was an IBM 23FD "Minnow"[2]. The capacity and timeframe matches up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Series/1

[2] https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=885

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Re:Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Flop... by uni_rule on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:17PM (#37177836)
The US military after using 37 different shell companies to purchase hundreds of gotek floppy emulators and 5.25" to 3.5" drive brackets:

> Damn I'm good at modernization

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Re:Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Flop... by tyingq on Friday August 18, 2023 @02:22PM (#37179939)
Well, they will also need 8" to 5.25".
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Re:Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Flop... by briffle on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:18PM (#37177847)
those were 16-bit machines so perhaps they have to find aging flash drives smaller than 2GB?
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