Re: tlug: parallel-port IDE

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Jim Breen wrote:

> Is that why the USN still operates them?   8-)}

Nope, the last one (New Jersey?) was decommissioned several years ago.
They're not going back into commission because _both_ the ordnance and the
steam plants are completely unsafe, and no more will be built because they
are expensive and ineffective.

> The Graf Spee was a "pocket" battleship

Oops.  I should have been a little more careful.

> If the aircraft carriers had been caught at Pearl Harbor, the Pacific
> war would have been *very* different. The absence of the battleships
> probably had no impact.

_That_ was what I was trying to say, in my roundabout fashion.  Thanks.

-- Chris

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