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Both the individual and business master files are still written in IBM mainframe assembly language, and are circa 56 years old. See the table on page 4 of this PDF for a list of the oldest systems in operation:

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-...

Number three on the the list is The DoD's Strategic Automated Command and Control System, which runs on "an IBM Series/1 Computer—a 1970s computing system—and uses 8-inch floppy disks". No biggie; it just "coordinates the operational functions of the United States’ nuclear forces, such as intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers, and tanker support aircrafts."



I am wrong then! 56 years? That's the sixties. Yes, https://www.cnet.com/news/irs-trudges-on-with-aging-computer... it's from 1962 according to this 2008 article and the S/370 was introduced in 1970. It's actually an IBM 7074. God above. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:J3hXqKq...

This is a PDF from 2016 https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/scap-pia.pdf

> Standard CFOL Access Protocol (SCAP) is written in COBOL/Customer Information Control System (CICS). SCAP downloads Corporate Files On-Line (CFOL) data from the IBM mainframe at the Enterprise Computing Center, Martinsburg. The CFOL data resides in a variety of formats (packed decimal, 7074, DB2, etc.)

7074 format. weeps


Yeah, but it's better for the ICBM control systems to run on 8'floppies, it's much safer (also because of the added friction)


Distorts the attack surface these legacy systems present.




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