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Campaign there was a lot of talk about which candidate you would trust with their finger on the button controlling the nuclear arsenal, some of the technology thats coordinated the nuclear arsenal does rely on 8-inch floppy disk and its not the equipment thats getting older, the workforce is getting older too. the partnership for public service looked at the data and found that there are more federal it employees over 65 than federal it employees under 30. >> federal government spends almost $90...

Were waiting on a freedom of information act request right now to the governors office in main. the last thing they told us is theyre going to put the data we want on a cd and mail it to us. i dont know why they cant e-mail it but its coming on a cd. before we had cds we had floppy di disks. before that there was a floppier floppy disks. before that there was an even floppier disk that was eight inches square. who remembers those existed. the drives for those you had to get them wheeled on a rac...

Were waiting on a freedom of information act request right now to the governors office in main. the last thing they told us is theyre going to put the data we want on a cd and mail it to us. i dont know why they cant e-mail it but its coming on a cd. before we had cds we had floppy disks. before that there was a floppier floppy disks. before that there was an even floppier disk that was eight inches square. who remembers those existed. the drives for those you had to get them wheeled on a rack. ...

>> thats what started all this. if the local news hadnt shown her buying a car, we wouldnt be talking about this. >> mr. baez did not respond to the request for a comment. not surprising. >> not surprising. >> this all happened in orlando. >> figuratively and literally, brian, right on both count, mr. kilmeade. >> thank you. how long has it been since you used one of these? >> what is that? >> for our -- its -- its a disc. a floppy. >> asks the 20-year-old in the studio. >> its costing you bil...

E-mail it but its coming on a cd. before we had cds we had floppy disks. before that there was a floppier floppy disks. before that there was an even floppier disk that was eight inches square. who remembers those existed. the drives for those you had to get them wheeled on a rack. hard to believe we used thats for anything. whats harder to believe ask that we are still using those today and what were using them for. the government accountability office released a report saying those disks are s...

>> investigators were desperate to repair not only the disks but the damage to their reputations as well. so they collected the pieces and sent them to the u.s. militarys brand-new computer forensics laboratory. >> they said youre not going to believe what happened. we were interviewing this guy. he reaches into a box with a pair of pinking shears and he starts cutting up this diskette. theyre in the mail to you. im like, okay. wow. im not a magician. what are we going to do? >> to their dismay,...

Brand of scotch tape called 8-11. >> it doesnt leave a residue and its very easy to apply and very easy to take off without damaging anything. >> so they used it to piece together the damaged floppy disk. to their enormous relief, it was a success. >> it took some initiative and it worked. ha! >> there were lots of cheers. so, it was pretty cool. it was pretty rewarding that we actually developed a technique that was working and we were actually getting data. >> what some said would cost close t...

>> investigators were desperate to repair not only the disks, but the damage to their reputations as well. so, they collected the pieces and sent them to the u.s. militarys brand new computer forensics laboratory. >> they said youre not going to believe what happened. we were interviewing this guy, he reaches into the box and pulls out a diskette with a pair of pinking shears and starts cutting up this diskette, and theyre in the mail to you. im like, okay, im not a magician, im a computer crime...

>> investigators were desperate to repair not only the disks, but the damage to their reputations as well. so, they collected the pieces and sent them to the u.s. militarys brand new computer forensics laboratory. >> they said youre not going to believe what happened. we were interviewing this guy, he reaches into the box and pulls out a diskette with a pair of pinking shears and starts cutting up this diskette, and theyre in the mail to you. im like, okay, im not a magician, im a computer crime...

And their research led to a brand of scotch tape called 8-11. >> it doesnt leave a residue and its very easy to apply and very easy to take off without damaging anything. >> so they used it to piece together the damaged floppy disk. to their enormous relief, it was a success. >> it took some initiative and it worked. ha! >> there were lots of cheers. so, it was pretty cool. it was pretty rewarding that we actually developed a technique that was working and we were actually getting data. >> what ...