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Government in Action! * The Defense Department still uses 1980s-era 8-inch floppy disks on computer systems that handle part of America's "nuclear umbrella," including ballistic missiles. Also, according to a May report by the Government Accountability Office, systems...

Top honors for the oldest federal government IT system still in use go to the Treasury Department, which stores taxpayer account information on IBM mainframe computers that are approximately 56 years old. The department has no plans to replace them.