Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Kohlbach Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Why the Soviet computer failed Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 12:17:30 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: <87o7we6g9x.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> References: <20220728221613@news.eternal-september.org> <8f7fc3c4-6ab0-4345-888f-aa531cc35a2cn@googlegroups.com> <60uhfh942f3d8boj4jsrm6ls6rbv1143je@4ax.com> <20220814182335.44748600f113730057df4b7e@eircom.net> <6dec26a7-b033-409c-ae5f-47e8f600c9fdn@googlegroups.com> <105451250.682535150.845961.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <20220819002100.9ee9342968416d090a2d0727@eircom.net> <1380035000.682570583.203227.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <20220819085627.2f08619c771ebf6fb723fa9b@eircom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7202d676f13b4a7e09513c29b561a2ca"; logging-data="2106060"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19W1J654x3v4rXOxClj9BYX" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PdtJiTZObgZqBqD4+pmNBKNeyRc= sha1:o/e9QVvSxo4yAu8ZWXMw1Ir/iXU= X-No-Archive: Yes Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:221848 On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 22:43:58 -0500, Dave Garland wrote: > > On 8/19/2022 2:56 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: >>> >> Oh yes, and it may have been the event that made cross-cut >> shredders popular, reconstructing cross-cut by hand would take a *long* >> time. >> > Yup. But scanners and computers have gotten very cheap. I'm betting > that these days, the time would mostly be determined by how long it > took to lay the pieces out on a scanner, and then to flip each > piece... wait, if you laid them out in plastic sleeves, flipping would > be nil time. Today, almost every cheap ass printer comes with a scanner. Remember the 90s, when you had these odd hand scanners? You have to swipe over a paper several times, and not still have missed parts of it. Black and white of course. -- Andreas