[Milsurplus] Old CPUs - Now strategic war

[Gene Smar]

Gents:

     If you study the history of Eastern Europe in the late 1980s I think 
you'll find that politics, as well as hardware, influenced events that 
caused the collapse of the Iron Curtain.  Specifically, look to the common 
cause of both President Ronald Reagan and the Pope JP II - support for those 
oppressed by Communism.  The outspoken Pope was held in (reluctant) great 
esteem by the Polish government at the time who reluctantly permitted Lech 
Walensa and his Solidarity Union to protest in the Gdansk shipyards in the 
early 1980s.  This outpouring of Polish courage was seen all over the world 
(via two other new technologies - camcorders and satellite television) as a 
chink in the Communist armor.  Eventually the Roumanian ouster of Ceaucescu 
et al in 1989 became the first last straw of European Communism.


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RICHARD SOLOMON" <w1ksz at q.com>
To: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Old CPUs - Now strategic war


>
> I believe it was the deployment of the Peacekeeper Missile System that 
> caused
> the end of the Cold War. An extremely accurate Re-Entry Vehicle, that had
> First-Strike capability was impossible to defend against.
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
>> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:42:59 -0500
>> From: ka1kaq at gmail.com
>> To: k7dfw at clatskanie.com
>> CC: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Old CPUs - Now strategic war
>>
>> 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.............
>> >
>> > ========================================
>> >
>> > 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
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