15 Apr
1998
15 Apr
'98
9:16 p.m.
Max Eskin wrote:
I was born in the USSR an came here 7 years ago
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 ;-] 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. 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 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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