>
>Max Eskin wrote:
>
>> All right, I have taken this for a while, but no more. This ignorance
>> about Soviet technology and abilities is ridiculous. I think you
>> people have kept your anti-communist opinions along with you IBM
>> 704s.
>
>My guess is that Max has a bit of Russian blood lines in him to get so
>infuriated ;-]
I was born in the USSR an came here 7 years ago
>> Although the USSR certainly had ridiculous administration, and its
>> technology was not very modern, there were many advances by the
>> soviet union, and it now has just as much technology as the US.
>
>Becuase since the breakdown of the USSR they've imported shiploads.
Prior to
>this they were banned from technological advances openly available in
the
>free world, same as the restrictions on obtaining nuclear materials and
bomb
>technology.
Well, nowadays, Windows 95 is almost as easy to get over there as
weapons-grade plutonium ;)
>> a LOT of modern programmers are Russian. Most Russian immigrants
>> I know deal with computers.
>
>If any of us had to consider dealing with jail time for low grades we'd
get
>out act together too.
Jail time? No. Loss of self-respsect? Yes. Nothing the government
can do will get people to learn well. It is a good moral foundation
that most schools here don't teach, and parents don't have time to.
Sorry for the off-topic and anti-US stuff, folks.
>
>Max, I just can't hold this back....I have socks older than that! I hit
>first grade the year JFK was shot. (please no offense, I get the same
from
>those that saw the depression - my parents) You can't judge the US's
>capabilities by a public school inventory either - most have Apple II's
in
[ON TOPIC BELOW]
I meant simply to share the only computer I ever saw in the USSR.
There was a big sign on the wall that said "Turn the computers off
before leaving!". That wasn't meant for us, but I didn't know that,
and I once turned a terminal off. I came back next time, the terminal
didn't. I guess it had volatile ROM or something. In general, I liked
those terminals. They looked very, um, handmade.
>went on. I've disarmed and unloaded stranded Soviet aircraft that were
>forced to land in Iceland for mechanical problems prior to their
repairs.
>The Fixbat, Bear, etc have had panels opened by crews that were doing
>repairs "for diplomatic reasons" while we unloaded their heavy steel
>missiles and I've seen planes as late as 1985 with vacuum tubes and
"solid
>state tubes" in their electronics bays. We had a rectifier from a radio
in a
>captured Soviet tank that made our solid state items in 1970 look like
>microprocessors.
What's wrong with vacuum tubes? You're the ones collecting them :0
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Received on Wed Apr 15 1998 - 20:16:35 BST