If you are a current and grinding user, you will probably think that an operating system such as Windows 95 and information supports such as 3 -inch and a half disks They are relics of the past that have no place with a quarter of the inside of the twenty -first century. But if you have to do with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States, hardly. Although Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 95 in 2000FAA has continued to use it for nothing more and nothing less than air traffic control. And now he wants to renew it, although they don’t have them all with them.
Chris Rocheaudirector of the FAA, said during a recent budget hearing that a deep technological renewalreports Windows Central. So innovative that the agency will stop using Windows 95 for air traffic control and will also eliminate floppy disks, another vestige of the twentieth century. Flight information paper will also be replaced For more modern technology … if the update is finally carried out.
The problem is that Gathering money will not be easy either. The technological modernization plan, collected in the document entitled ‘New Air Traffic Control System: United States builds again‘it emphasizes that the current budget of the agency is not up to the target.
‘In the last 15 years, the annual item for the Facilities and Equipment account (F&E), which is used to maintain and improve much of the FAA air control infrastructure, has remained practically constant in about 3,000 million dollars a year’indicates the plan. ‘This stagnation has made FAA lose about 1,000 million dollars of purchasing power due to inflation, while trying to maintain aging systems and achieve ambitious objectives of modernization to increase the safety and efficiency of the National Air Space System (NAS)’.
When it comes to obsolete technologythe FAA is not alone. British Airwayswho withdrew his Boeing 747-400 During the pandemic, he revealed that these airplanes had used floppy disks throughout their useful life. Since they only store 1.44 MB eachthe crew inserted up to eight floppy disks to load critical flight information every 28 days.
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Interestingly, this old technology also has its positive side. Depending on floppy disks to update the plane offers a certain level of security to protect sensitive data since modern systems, which are updated remotely, They require additional cybersecurity measures.