• rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz
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    16 days ago

    damn imagine being a tech that performs engineering miracles just to make this piece of shit last of their species brezhnev era relic radar to talk to other elements of air defense, then it gets blown up and the next one was programmed in soviet cobol

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      16 days ago

      If it’s from the late 1950s, it wouldn’t even have been a knockoff COBOL. Probably assembly language for a machine that used either base 3 or base minus 2. (Before Khrushchev (I think) gave the order to stop inventing their own tech and start cloning American computers, the Soviets had some seriously weird computer architectures.)