U.S. federal agency is still used floppy disks!

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It may be difficult to believe that the U.S. government agency still depends on the technical means bypassing a long time ago as a ( floppy disks )
, which are no longer seen only rarely , but this is particularly true where the transfer site gawker that the federal agency U.S. still use this electronic medium antique in its work.

Site gawker who conveyed this news :http://adf.ly/aUvoo  strange to many talking about the fact that the (Office of the Federal Register ), a government agency, a federal U.S. is still dependent on floppy disks in his work which relates to publication of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations , which is similar to the work of ( the Official Gazette ) in some countries where it is deployment of the new laws and to the piece .
Federal Register prepared by this agency is reprinted in ( office printing your U.S. government ) and for the transfer of the documents related to this action is to rely on floppy disks 3.5 inch in addition to other means Kaloaqras optical CD-ROM or and  newer methods Kvlashat or USB cards SD.

The main reason that this federal agency still relies on this method is the difficulty of establishing an information system believer significantly .. which would require a huge budget , and the possibility of piracy of data almost impossible .

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