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To: dhs12345
Ironically, low technology is the best way to go.

I worked at a Marine base as a civilian computer programmer back in the '80s. One Marine told me about a demo he had seen. The highers ups were all abuzz over the new computers coming out and wanted to put all records on them.

He said that at the demo, the sergeant held up a notebook with all the pertinent data about the company, then fired a .45 round through it. Then he went over to a CRT and did the same thing. "Now which one will still work?" he asked.

63 posted on 12/07/2013 11:24:25 AM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Oatka
Lol. Exactly,

I also wonder what will happen to all of the paper nav charts. Electronic GPS nav systems dominate now. What happens when the nav systems die, wear out, or lose their power.

65 posted on 12/07/2013 11:29:08 AM PST by dhs12345
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