Secret Service Still Uses 1980s Mainframe Computers
 

These computers look like something from the old Lost In Space TV series. :D

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"A classified review of the United States Secret Service's computer technology found that the agency's computers were fully operational only 60 percent of the time because of outdated systems and a reliance on a computer mainframe that dates to the 1980s, according to Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.

A classified review of the United States Secret Service's computer technology found that the...

"We have here a premiere law enforcement organization in our country which is responsible for the security of the president and the vice president and other officials of our government, and they have to have better IT than they have," said Lieberman, who is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

Sources tell ABC News that the Secret Service was so plagued by computer problems that the agency invited the National Security Agency to formally review its information technology systems. The Secret Service's databases are outdated and users are at times unable to conduct searches from one system to another..."

The complete article is over here.

Interesting. Yet there are billions of dollars for black ops.

My dry cleaners still uses MS-DOS and a dot matrix printer. For those of you under 40, MS-DOS was Bill Gates first operating system. LOL

Interesting, they don't show the main computer(s). Probably a security thing.


Those tape drives are from the middle 70s. By 1980 we were using waist high top loading or rack mount self loading tape drives. Switching over in the late 80s to cartridge/cassette style tape backups.