Bina on Iraq

ChrisD(RJ) chrisd at russiajournal.com
Mon Feb 24 06:54:24 PST 2003


That was because vacuum tubes survive EMP (the electro-magnetic pulse generated by atomic blasts) and transisters don't. The soviets knew perfectly well how to make transistors.

Michael --- They also new perfectly well how to make computers. 80s Soviet IT was as good as Japanese. They were just not widely used because you can make a political pamphlet with a computer.



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