Kinda. Electricity is pretty darn dumb. You can get cheap-ish 2-stroke generators with a typical outlet or two that is enough to drive anything short of a refri

Kinda. Electricity is pretty darn dumb. You can get cheap-ish 2-stroke generators with a typical outlet or two that is enough to drive anything short of a refrigerator or freezer. Similarly analog phone lines are pretty darn dumb. Vibrations registrered by one membrane is replicated in another by inducing changes in an electric current connecting the two. The complexity is in the switch boards that construct the circuit over distances. A proper POTS setup can actually handle loss of long distance lines without losing local connectivity, as long as the local switchboards are powered. And for that we are back at generators. Computers on the other hand are complex. Your typical Windows install have a buch of processes going in the background, talking to various pieces or hardware, and that is just a clean install sitting idle. Frankly the old microcomputers were more reliable. At worst a crypto attack would take out whatever floppy was in the drive at the time, and would be gone the second a power switch was flipped.