[discostu]

Know all about it. And it clearly shows the “apocalypse” threat is way outside of the actual recorded behavior. The map at the top of the threads shows the whole country taking serious damage to their electronics, the real effect was minor inconveniences for a couple hundred miles. On a much weaker system than we have in place now.

[familyop]

In regards to a "...a much weaker system than we have in place now," pulses from nukes would damage more microelectronics. Ejections from the sun would be less likely to cause that kind of damage and cause more long-wave damage instead (transformers on power grids and the like). Both power grid and microelectronics are weaker now than electrical and communications infrastructure in the past. Not so long ago, I carried radios in the field for the Army a few times--radios that were quite heavy with old-tech. electronics for a practical reason. ...only "a few times," because I spent most of the time in service as a grenadier and 60-gunner. But all platoon members were well schooled on those radios.

It's no secret. Russia uses old fashioned tubes in at least some of their new aircraft and brags about it.