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Pastimes : Shuttle Columbia STS-107 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HULA who wrote (104)2/2/2003 11:12:25 AM
From: DMaA  Respond to of 627
 
It's too soon now but in the very near future, we need to rethink from scratch why we're going into space, and why we are using these things to do it.



To: HULA who wrote (104)2/3/2003 5:57:38 PM
From: Yogizuna  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 627
 
"Until recently, the flight-deck computers on the space shuttle used old 8086 chips from the early 1980s, the sort of pre-Pentium electronics no self-respecting teenager would dream of using for a video game."

Unbelievable, but shockingly true. It almost seems like an April Fool's prank....


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