[Milsurplus] Re: 20 Years into the Future

[William Donzelli]

> the list goes
> on, these basic circuits which were developed by
> engineers & scientists of WWII are still being used
> today.

Well, not really.Most of the technologies from World War 2 are dead or
near death. Digital and solid state is where it is at. Look at even a
modern broadcast transmitter - there is almost nothing a 1940s
engineer would even start to recognize.

> If you took away their
> computer, how would the youth of today be able to
> mathematically compute & design anything??

The ironic thing is that every engineer worth his salt back in the
1960s would kill a man for a few seconds of processor time...

--
Will