🍿🚨🚨Russia's 'Dead Hand' Is A Soviet-Built Nuclear Doomsday Device🚨🚨🍿
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Dangerous to the whole world, but not totally uncalled for when the cabal has aligned almost every powerful country in the world against you.
Just the thought it might be real, and actually work would be a strong deterrent to attacking Russia.
We can not allow a mine shaft gap.
Better Dead Than Red
That’s an old term sure to ge revived.
u/#Pepenuke
I'm not worried about it.
The Perimeter system went online in 1985. :>)
Do you realize where computers were at in 1985?
The term "software" wasn't even invented yet.
Most mainframe computers were still using "punch cards".
The largest data storage devices were the 5-1/4" floppy disks
The TRS-80 (Tandy Radio Shack) computers were around... but everyone was buying MacIntosh or Apple computers, which were state-of-the-art at the time.
Microsoft Windows version 1.0 came out on November 20, 1985.
The fastest processors available weren't even up to 133 mhz speed yet. That wouldn't happen for a few more years. In 1985, they were probably operating around 20 mhz.
Are you telling me that a Russian made computer system from 1985 is capable of controlling their nuclear arsenal?
I don't think so.
Please forgive me ... I have to comment on this and I'm gonna sound like a condescending asshole :-) ....
1> The term software was alive and well in 1985. It first appeared in the 1950s.
2> Mainframe computers were typically run off large magnetic tape drives at the time. Many used LARGE (physically) harddrives too. Punch cards were still around, but were pretty much a dead technology by then.
3> Largest storage devices ... 3.5" floppy drives were available at the time ... many machines being released in '85 had them. Plus, hard drives were making their way onto the desktop.
4> In the 80s, everyone bought computers from Commodore, Atari, Tandy, and Sinclair (in the West at at least). Alot of clones of these computers made their way into the USSR.
Apples and PCs were kind of rare in homes at the time due to price ... they mainly showed up in schools. Also, the Apple II, Apple's first successful computer, debuted in the late 70s IIRC ... the Mac did come out in 1985 (and it was impressive at the time though quite expensive compared to other 16 bit computers with vastly superior AV systems (like the Amiga and Atari ST) but wasn't exactly a big seller compared to the others I mentioned.
5> Using an off the shelf operating system to control a nuclear arsenal would have been ridiculous at the time (in my opinion, it'd still be retarded to use one today).
6> Speed isn't everything when it comes to control of weapons. Reliability is.
7> A Russian system in 1985 could easily control a nuclear arsenal. They had access to a lot of Western technology ... they could have integrated that into their system. However, I think "keep it simple stupid" applies to weapons ... you want to make a frigging rock solid, simple system to control weapons ... Russia certainly had this at the time, and if it was designed properly, they'd have absolutely no need to upgrade anything.
I'm not trying to be condescending ... you'd be amazed what older technology is capable of doing when a systems engineers and programmers know what they are doing. MANY businesses still use mainframes purchased in the 80s to manage/store their critical data today. It's mainly due to reliability. Sure, they could probably use a frigging Raspberry Pi these days to do the task of a giant piece of equipment performed in the 80s, but why risk that when a machine you've been using for 40 years never fails and does exactly what you need it to do?
I had an Amiga system in 1989.
Those things crashed every few hours, or once a day if you were lucky.
Had to constantly back up everything you were doing in case the system crashes again. Amiga computers were great for creating graphics, audio or for playing video games.
I remember a company, based in Topeka, Ks. called Nu-Tech developed a "video toaster" for the Amiga system. I remember watching TV... and occasionally you could see where they were using Amiga graphics on commercials or on broadcasts due to the distinct glitches it had.
They put more RAM in it.