Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:46:47 -0500

Lester Zick wrote:

> But there is for how they move vacuum tubes or valves as the British
> call them.

So what. No one uses them for computers any more. They are slow, they
are unreliable and they have a short mean time between failures.

Bob Kolker

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