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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3556667, member: 27832&quot;]Well, maybe -- but how many libraries still have non-electronic <i>catalogs</i>?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://folk.uio.no/knuthe/kuriosa/draper.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://folk.uio.no/knuthe/kuriosa/draper.pdf" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s a good short treatment</a> of the problem, from 1961. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hey, I&#039;ve read <i>Lucifer&#039;s Hammer</i>, with the SF fan guy who saves civilization with his hoard of nerd books, and I&#039;ve got my own hoard. <i>Art of Electronics</i> (hands-down the best electronics text in existence, period), several books on how common mechanisms work, building lab equipment from the basics, and of course the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRC_Handbook_of_Chemistry_and_Physics" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRC_Handbook_of_Chemistry_and_Physics" rel="nofollow">CRC Bible</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>If things go <i>way</i> downhill, my best chance for survival would be going to the local warlord and explaining to him that I know how to make things like alcohol and guncotton.</p><p><br /></p><p>But bootstrapping your way back up to 14nm chip foundries? That&#039;s going to take a <i>long, long</i> time. And that means less storage, less memory, less compute power, and less of all the things that those enable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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