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This is the oldest tech still used by the US government

Paul Szoldra,Paul Szoldra,Paul Szoldra   

This is the oldest tech still used by the US government
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Obama computers

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President Barack Obama talks with students during an "Hour of Code" event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, attended by middle-school students from Newark, N.J.

The US government has some catching up to do in the technology department.

Agencies across the government reported using tech in some cases that was more than 50 years old, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

That means everything from America's nukes still being controlled by 8-inch floppy disks to taxes being tracked with a programming language designed in the 1950s.

The title of the report on the government's information technology infrastructure - "Federal Agencies Need to Address Aging Legacy Systems" - is what we'd classify as an understatement.

Here are the oldest systems GAO found were still in use, along with the plan (if any) of when they'll be updated.

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