Re: The Macintosh is a girl's computer!

Graeme Wall <Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (J. J. Lodder) wrote:
[snip]

Too bad for your father, but if it meant getting a Condor shot down
for on average one cheaper allied plane lost
that would have suited them fine.

That's fantasy. Kondors were about the same cost as a Lancaster and no
harder to replace.

Hmm. Depends on when during the war, surely? In the later days of the
war, Germany was having great difficulty making things. I know what the
figures state about economic production and all that - but they were
building Me262s out in the open in the woods, during the later days, for
heaven's sake!

You obviously no little about the wartime German
economy. Where the Germans were wasting money was on the V projects and
the Holocaust. On a purely economic basis the latter was a stupid waste
of money and resources.

Part of the harm that did to the German war effort by gettting rid of a
large fraction of their very best researchers - who were Jewish. At
least one research institute closed down because they lost their Jews
and - well, that was it. Not enough people of the required calibre were
left for the place to be viable.

`Surely your research institute hasn't suffered much from losing your
Jews?' asked the Nazi visitor.

`Suffer? No, it didn't suffer. It just doesn't exist any more'.
replied the academic.

The V projects all took resources away from much more effective means of
attacking enemies. V2s wouldn't have been economical weapons compared
to (say) an He111 even if they weren't horribly inaccurate, so I've
read, based on what I am told was the real survival rate of He111s in
action. Not sure about V1s - but they were pretty easy to deal with if
you could see 'em coming (that's what radar was for) and had fast enough
aeroplanes lurking around to deal with 'em. They never did get the V3
working properly.

Thing is, *some* of the German wonder-weapons were rather effective.
They had a rocket-powered glide bomb for attacking ships that was a
right sod to have shot at you by all accounts.

And can you imagine what the air battles might have been like if they'd
ever got pilots flying these things in significant numbers?

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_162>

Rowland.

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