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Wednesday 13th April 2016 09:27 GMT x 7

Re: Floppy discs will never replace mylar

I was surprised recently when I was told by a RAF tech that they were still using punch tape to program the RAF Jaguar's mission avionics right up to when they were retired in ~2007

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