What is this?

[Grant Bowker]

that I could persuade people that high-tech (I admit it has its uses, like MLU) isn't the total answer to everything and that plans have to be made for possible failure. Point in case, it was late yesterday before one of our computers came fully to life after a power failure the day before although there was some human error too. If simple can do the job, don't get over fancy. Isn't that one of the reasons we love CMPs? Imagine trying to restore one of today's electronic marvel trucks in 60 years with all of the shop manuals on CD or online long gone and the electro chips all fried and long gone (try finding 10 year old individual memeory chips). There is no simple equivalent to heating a strip of steel, beating it to shape and drilling the required holes before painting it with a brush.
Rant over.