Trivia Question

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Fri Feb 21 17:01:00 2003

Jim Battle wrote:
> I've had the discussion with workmates about the following scenario. If
> the German forces had access to a single 5150 IBM PC back in 1940,
> would the war have ended very differently? I think it would have.

How? Do you have any particular scenario in mind? It seems pretty
unlikely to me. I suppose it might depend a little bit on what software
they get with the computer. But even postulating some really amazing
software (off-the-shelf commercial software, not specialized weapon-
design software), it's hard for me to imagine how one PC would have
offered them any huge advantage over the allies.
Received on Fri Feb 21 2003 - 17:01:00 GMT