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Brother Buzz

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7. I suspect Russia was forced to adopt the US's thinking....

Reply to robertpaulsen (Reply #6)

Mon Aug 14, 2017, 04:22 PM

Aug 2017

Harden the electronic device.

Think about it, there is NO WAY you can build today's microprocessors using vacuum tubes today and expect to fit it into an airplane. The first vacuum tube computer, ENIAC (WWll), used 17,000 tubes, weighed 30 tons, and consumed 140 kilowatts of electricity. And it was horribly slow, that is, until a tube burned out.....

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Love the old school mechanical teletype... hunter Aug 2017 #1

Everything there was carefully preserved. robertpaulsen Aug 2017 #2

I used to work in a newsroom with an AP teletype. hunter Aug 2017 #3

Our tour guide Steve did a great job conveying that day-to-day intensity. robertpaulsen Aug 2017 #5

My astronomy professor was a ground observer in the USSR during the Apollo-Soyuz mission.... Brother Buzz Aug 2017 #4

That's smart thinking. robertpaulsen Aug 2017 #6

I suspect Russia was forced to adopt the US's thinking.... Brother Buzz Aug 2017 #7

Yeah, you're probably right. robertpaulsen Aug 2017 #8