When the systems get replaced, the systems get replaced

That's comforting.
HOWEVER it may be more difficult to hack the more high-tech... the easier it may be.

They work. The main frames and consoles can't be hacked. Don't fix them.

If all you want to do is to call and talk to someone a rotary phone can do the job. You can still buy one on Amazon.



There are warehouses full of spare parts to repair these systems but few technicians to do the job and they are retiring and dying off rapidly. That's the big problem.

because they'll allocate billions and even trillions for overengineered planes that are a giant step backward according to the test pilots and aircraft carriers the navy neither needs nor wants but they won't allocate a few million to keep systems up to date.

They'll bother to replace this crap only when it finally dies and there are no more replacement parts sitting in some warehouse.

Actually, I find some of this a little comforting, an obsolete computer system frying at a critical point and saving the world from total annihilation.

tho, perhaps.

... that still makes 8 inch floppy disks? ... on military contract?

I wonder how much they charge per disk.

Let's build up a supercomputer with the latest technology to replace the old system.

Let's name it, oh...SKYNET.

Enter.

Nobody has asked me to transfer data from an 8" disk for many years now.

I only have a 5" when floppy.