Re: Starting a New Life on Giligan's Island

Mark Thorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> Electromagnetic relays were used in a few early computers,
> if you don't mind rather slow computers.

Here's a wacky question -- what does a pre-iron age civilization need
a computer for?  Yeah, an IBM PC would have been great during the US
moon launch, but the first use of computers, as I recall, was
computing cannonball tragetories -- babbiges adding machine would be
adequete -- assuming we have to recompute this data at all.  Will we
fight wars exactly the same?  Better work on swordplay and longbow
skills to start with, in that case.