Another post regarding time travel got me wondering how far back in time can I hypothetically leave a modern computer where they, the most capable engineers of their time, can then somewhat reverse engineer it or even partially?
Another post regarding time travel got me wondering how far back in time can I hypothetically leave a modern computer where they, the most capable engineers of their time, can then somewhat reverse engineer it or even partially?
I looked it up, the first first SEM was 1937, then commercial ones in 1965
That’s a little bit earlier than I thought. I would think the NASA guys in the 70s and 80s could work it out. They were fucking geniuses for the Apollo program and I bet a lot of them still worked there.
[e] Thinking about this more – it would take a certain amount of time and effort to be able to understand it and that also means progress on current technology would still progress and eventually those two amounts of time would become similar if not identical. IE – it would take 40 years to work out a machine 40 years from the future, or something like that, where eventually current tech catches up to future tech reverse engineering.