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From: jwl@garnet.berkeley.edu (James Wilbur Lewis)
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Subject: Re: New Shuttle Computers
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Date: 7 Mar 91 01:07:52 GMT
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In article <1991Mar06.063034.12021@nowhere.uucp> sking@nowhere.uucp (Steven King) writes:
>
>   With the 230 lbs they saved they could put a couple hundred meg disk
> array on each CPU and...  

...watch their data get turned into a worthless pile of iron oxide if
the spacecraft changes attitude while the drives are spinning!

-- Jim Lewis