[Milsurplus] Old CPUs - Now strategic war

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:25 PM, ROLYNN PRECHTL  K7DFW
<k7dfw at clatskanie.com> wrote:
> I have a lot of respect for the U.S. Navy's sister services, but once the submarine-launched ballistic missile became fully operational in the very early 1960s, the USAF should have removed itself from the strategic weapons delivery scene except for delivery of high yield devices via missile.  Cold War manned strategic bombers were superfluous except for Vietnam War arclight missions.............
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> Not true. It was the mixture of missiles and bombers that caused their downfall and the end of the Cold War. No one       >launched missiles at them but we launched armed airborne alert bombers every blasted day for decades.


Wasn't it the B2 Stealth bomber that pushed them over the edge after
they had just finished plowing years of their budgets into new radar
technology that the B2 made basically obsolete?

My computer gear only goes back to the C64 and IBM PS2 mod 30, though
I do have a lot of IBM mainframe operating systems and manuals on CDs.
Chances are good they'll end up as drink coasters, which isn't as bad
as another programmer who wanted to use them as skeet targets. The
bookcases full of paper manuals got pulped.

~ Todd, KA1KAQ/4