25 Jul
2025
25 Jul
'25
8:45 p.m.
On 7/25/25 12:13, cz via cctalk wrote:
Oh is this public now? I remember this, it was
hilarious.
Imagine what happens when all your valves go to "open" or
"closed" at once.
Well, it was in the Washington Post (I think) so that is
pretty public.
I wonder if this led to the downfall of the Soviet
Union.
Just think about how you would feel if you suddenly
realized that all the infrastructure based on chips and
designs that you stole was now 100% suspect and could blow
up at any time.
Well, it sure didn't help. It took them several years to
rebuild the pipeline. But, I think the stinger missile was
what ultimately brought them down, as well as "Star Wars"
ie. Reagan's SDI.
It was said some time ago by a major US computer scientist
that their copying the IBM 360 as their BESM 1060 set their
computer industry back a full decade.
Jon