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Inductors do a hell of a lot better than microelectronics in an EMP, even first graders know that.

Depends on the design and use. Current military electronics are hardened against EMP to a very high level. Stuff even a few years old not so much. Depends on the power and proximity to the event. The computer you a working on not so much. Of course a tube system made to copy the functions of it would be the size of Rhode island and consume half the power in the US and still wouldn't(couldn't) be hardened. BTW your position on inductor durability is refuted by the Starfish test where street lights in Hawaii were taken out by one of the tests. Guess what the all had in common? They had similar alignment to the blast and all had transformers (ballasts).