I remember corrupted Floppies back in the 1980s.

Who really knows, being as so much of the information is classified, but the military did admit a few years ago that they were using floppies (I believe they were truly ancient 8" disks--anyone remember those?) to run their computers. In a way, this may have even been somewhat beneficial; the systems were basically impossible to hack from the outside. And even if the enemy was able to sneak in a spy or two, the technology was so old that they would be hard-pressed in their ability to compromise it.

The last I heard was that the computers were in the process of being upgraded, but as I said, who really knows?

Easily. I have "War Games" on DVD, and I watched it last weekend.



Source: https://www.virtual-history.com/movie/film/27669/wargames

And good afternoon.

...which also used 8" floppies to store what were then considered to be colossal-sized audio samples. Little did we know that by the 2000s, we would have literally gigabyte-sized samples streaming from hard disk (Tascam's "Gigasampler" software).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight_CMI

I think the later versions of the Fairlight used some of the very first commercially-viable hard drives, as 8" floppies weren't too practical for live performances, and those machines were going on concert tours all over the world.

The system they were using was IBM’s Series/1 minicomputer, which used 8” drives.

It was winter 1979 and I was in Detroit. The bus drivers went on strike and I was strandad at a desolate snow covered bus stop. I had to call my parents who drove twenty miles to pick me up that night. People depend on transit and it must always run.

Unfortunately almost every area of our lives these days are filled with incompetence.

Also, it appears really easy to disable the entire system by taking some network hardware offline. Cyber criminals can taste the ransom money already.

to hack their computers, to cause shit in another Dem city..............