Because that's the cooling system required to run the thing. It requires more toxic coolant, that will eventually end up in the ocean, than several hundred supercomputer megaclusters and sucks more power than a thousand suburbs.

Congrats on getting upvotes for this utter bullshit, none of which is substantiated in the article you linked.

Edit- this was at +15 when I first saw it.

I'm pretty sure I saw this in a 1988 reader's digest in my dentist's waiting room while sitting there in 1998.

sir this is a Wendy's drive through

Seriously. Where can I get that shampoo that just pure hog fat?

IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM

This guy eats a sandwich with a facial expression that indicates that he plans to beat his Butler for making it wrong.

Damn he almost had a shot to gain votes there but then he blew it.

After watching it...I don't think you so .

Of course, who cares about some goofy french people? Collapse of the roman empire is a totally different story though.

If that dog could talk the only thing it would say is "kill me".

The funny thing was 1.44mb is probably enough to store a really really long list of names and codenames so...they could have used a normal floppy disk lol.

Where are floppies used in the US government? Old mainframes are all over the place but where are floppies?

Japan just got an acute case of what a lot of western governments have - IT early adopter disease. These old systems were built using (at the time) revolutionary technology that was designed without much thought given to modularity or sun-setting.