yea, i am totally familiar. even in the 80s, our early detection capabilities were in the hands of an 8kb oil cooled dual core(for a total of 16kilobits) first production transistor computer made in 1960. i know, i worked with that beast while a crew member had a 32kb apple computer sitting on his desk in the barracks.
they were going through the motions, paying the civilains union wages of 60K for janitors while i got 600 bucks a month. i knew they werent seriously expecting a launch of any kind. how could they be?