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rbowman

On 02/10/2019 01:43 PM, wrote:
Originally I was involved in service delivery, basically figuring out
how to maintain a box that was designed to throw big assemblies at it
when there was no logistic chain to repair them. The parts were too
expensive to just throw away. You are not fixing a printer at the
Wendy's drive through at lunch time and keeping a happy customer.
You aren't keeping a happy bean counter if you throw a $1600 printer
at it.

Fixing a printer at Wendy's would be fun. At one place where I worked if
you called in the IBM CE you first had to take the ribbons out of all
the printers. You never knew what Russkie spies might have been able to
decipher from ribbon strikes.

In retrospect we could have given the Soviets the source code and set
them back 10 years. That was my first and last DoD project and I fully
understand why the F-35 doesn't fly too well. (the project had to do
with another flying weapons platform, not the F-35).