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US nuke arsenal runs on 1970s IBM 'puter waving 8-inch floppies

Brett Weaver

Nobody has mentioned

Its an EBCDIC processor, which makes it bloody secure :-)

Yes, Ascii terminals could be attached through a RS-232 port, but they were emulating ebcdic terminals.

I remember being pretty impressed when they were marketing them as air traffic controlling machines in '78.. A lot flasher than the S/3's 32's etc I was working with

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