Re: Huh?
I have a friend who is a military historian, based in the US.
He reckons there is a far more complete record of what went on in the military prior to mass adoption of computers. For example, American civil war orders, supply lists and casualty lists are still usuable in their original forms. This compares to US military orders and records form the 70s and 80s which are in some obscure file format and often corrupted, since they aren't a priority to be copied and backed up.
Thus he has a better idea about which units had cake in 19th century than if anyone had cake in the 20th.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
