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There's only so much you can do to keep an 80 year old technology developed with slide rules from being reverse engineered by a dedicated group of scientists with the benefit of 80 years of advancements in physics and access to a supercomputer (ie an iPhone).



in 2003 they didn't have access to an iphone, but the regular desktops were pretty good.


The article is written in 2003, but the two students did the research in the 60s. Not many desktops available at that time.




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