>> I also remember reading about the guy responsible for RADAR in the UK.
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>> One of the main problems was getting the things in to the field in sufficient
>> numbers. They were needed "yesterday" so they tested to build systems that just did, without
>> any fancy features. The fancy features, upgrades if you like, would come in the second,
>> third and fourth and later generations.
I've read elsewhere that Watson-Watt's motto was 'second best tomorrow'.
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