How dark is the future of the Morrow Project

[stormlion1]

Remember when the Morrow Project was conceived. The late 70's. A timer was a mechanical thing and transmitters and receivers were huge. Even the lines of code in those early computers was massive and inefficient to what they used today. Probably KOBOL. And that is a lot of lines of code right there. Even if they were updating everything constantly then by 3rd Editions nuke apocalypse it would still be only what, late 80's? The simplest thing would be to have a small crew remain awake and send the signal at the right time.
No excuse for 4th Edition though, they have to at least be running windows or some other programming language that would be able to do what is needed.