Re: Is their hardware history better or worse than their software history?
"Oddly, if you look at our history BEFORE we joined the EEC, it was a lot better."
You're looking at a time just after WWII - and really seeing a continuation of the inventiveness that engendered (radar etc.). After that the arts & PPE graduates took over and they didn't like these little men in brown coats with pens and screwdrivers in their top pockets.