If you compare it to real world data the whole computer thing doesnt work.
GDW like almost everyone else underestimated the growth of the computer industry in 1984. Remember that was the year of Apples big splash.
They did not appreciate that in 1997 something like 600 million PCs would be available around the world. If 1% survive the whole "No computers" goes out the window.
In 1997 I toured multiple EMP hardened data centers (local in Illinois) each with literally 1000s of computers protected with multiple redundancies. Project Reset would be a joke in the real world.
I did some calculation on Dark conspiracy (another gdw game) and it was supposed to take place in 2013 take a look at the computer specs GDW expected for that year. Clearly they did not follow
Moore's Law.