cfgaussian comments on Megathread for the US war on Iran

submitted 6 months ago by rodent@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml

This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).

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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Funny you should say that because parts of the US military still use floppy discs and magnetic tape technology from the cold war.

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[–] LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think some people in the modern age do not know what floppy disks look like (I do), but what is magnetic tape?

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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

It's what data used to be stored on before hard drives and floppy discs.

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[–] LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Ah, I see. My brain only goes back to cassette tapes and stuff, lol.

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