[herr_oberst]

Thanks to all the buffs who chimed in. I know the info on this stuff is available on Wiki, or just doing a google search, but to me half the fun of the OT is hearing real stories about this kind of stuff.

Also, I have no math skills at all, so it just flummoxes me that this and so much of what made the industrial nations great, is the fact that so much of these machines were designed on the drafting board using slide rules. No Cray supercomputer to help crunch the numbers. It boggles the mind. . .

Can you imagine what we could do if we could harness that kind of brain power again, with modern tools?

Oh well, at least we have realistic video games.