From: utzoo!watmath!decvax!harpo!rrb Newsgroups: net.space Title: Re: Russians in Radio Shack Article-I.D.: harpo.826 Posted: Wed Jun 30 13:36:41 1982 Received: Thu Jul 1 00:18:33 1982 References: ihuxn.162 I believe they concluded the vacuum tubes were preferred to IC's because of radiation in nuclear attacks. Our planes may end up flying themselves into the ground while the Russians fly on with this so called outdated technology. I hope this is not the case! Roger Busico Bell Laboratories, Whippany