Patriot missiles. The reason was, iirc, that it was designed for very short runtimes with ultra precise real time systems. Not to be used as a clock.
The system seems to have been successfully updated/implemented m as it took out some “hypersonic” missiles over Ukraine just recently.
Or the dreamliner.
I may have some platters from a WORM drive laying about (write once, read many)
I can see how that would have made you the king of the history department at one point
I should admit that Matt Parker’s “Humble Pi” was where I first learned about the 787’s problem.
Maybe Toyota keeps very good ghost records?
(note, I don’t even know what database they use, and doubt that that was the real problem; but the name seemed too good to ignore.)
Ha! I’m not that old. I got the tape from someone who was removing one of the last reader drives from whatever work they did.
I was considered odd when I loaded the 200 or so African slaves I was studying into Filemaker Pro, and all their demographic data. The department was filled with humanities historians, rather than social science historians, so the idea of using a database for doign social history was kind of weird, especially in the mid-1990s. Putting those people into Filemaker Pro allowed me to make some revealing connections – like the average age at which a human being was assigned a monetary value for the purposes of estate valuation, rather than being considered an attachment to their mother and part of her monetary value. Connected to a few other things, it helped me understand how Spanish law in the Americas understood slave families as legal and financial entities.
Well, the “you” above was meant more like a generic you…
But that is fascinating stuff.
Failure mode of a WORM drive becoming a WORN drive.
(Write Once Read Never.)
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