To: America_Right
How did the recorder continue to work? Wouldn’t the EMP fry it?
7 posted on
07/30/2012 8:53:00 AM PDT by
my small voice
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To: my small voice
Unlike semiconductors, vacuum tubes tolerate the over-voltages caused by EMP.
8 posted on
07/30/2012 9:04:38 AM PDT by
null and void
(Day 1287 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
To: my small voice
How did the recorder continue to work? Wouldn’t the EMP fry it?
There's also little to no EMP from an explosion in the middle of the atmosphere.
To: my small voice
The warhead was relatively small < 2KT and the detonation occurred in the lower atmosphere. ~10,000 ft. Hence, less EMP. The electronics were more likely vacuum tube or simple transistor, not IC. Hence, more resistant to EMP.
16 posted on
07/30/2012 10:59:53 AM PDT by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
To: my small voice
The warhead was relatively small < 2KT and the detonation occurred in the lower atmosphere. ~10,000 ft. Hence, less EMP. The electronics were more likely vacuum tube or simple transistor, not IC. Hence, more resistant to EMP.
17 posted on
07/30/2012 11:00:21 AM PDT by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
To: my small voice; null and void; Strategerist; reg45
What electronics? In 1957 they would have used a mechanical film camera. The camera would probably have had no sound (why would you need it?), and, hence, had no electronics of any kind.
Takes an old fart like me to remember what it was like back in those days.
18 posted on
07/30/2012 12:12:58 PM PDT by
rmh47
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