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Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-06 Cached

In 2006, curators from the Computer History Museum discovered a warehouse in Castrop-Rauxel, Germany, containing hundreds of rare historical computing artifacts, including Cold War-era Eastern Bloc systems, and cataloged the trove.

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America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-20 Cached

This article argues that the US imprisonment of Qian Xuesen in 1950 was a strategic blunder that ultimately enabled China's aerospace advancements, as demonstrated by recent Pakistani air victories using Chinese systems.

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