Glad I never understood anything about those power calculations 
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wow so many engineers who transitioned and had their deadname written off on that PCB 
Chiant que le téléphone mobile c'est bientôt fini en france. J'avais beau râler au début, il y a des côtés pratiques, j'ai fini par m'y habituer 
Of course, the obligatory Soviet hardware maintenance anecdote:
Having visited our laboratory [in Kiev] and scrupulously tested TsEM-1, Sergei Alexeevich [Lebedev] surprised us with this question: ‘Don’t you bang it with a hammer?’ It turned out that a rubber mallet was a common laboratory tool used on the BESM, and banging it on the machine’s solid-state metal frame was typical machine maintenance!
"In our institute we have a division of labor: some people make machines, others defend dissertations."
Sergei Alexeevich Lebedev
oof 
Mathias Rust casually mentioned in a discussion of computers systems for airspace monitoring 
In the beginning of 1950, a strange part was discovered amongst the items delivered from a war reparations warehouse. I cannot say exactly who found it; maybe Brook, maybe Matyuhin or Rameev, who had worked for us earlier. For a long time none of us could guess its origin or purpose, until later we figured out that it was a miniature copper-oxide rectifier. Once the value of this part was fully understood, the M-1 became the world’s first computer whose logic circuits were based on semiconductors.
Fallout players 
Sovietic computer researchers
