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From: session@uncw.UUCP (Zack C. Sessions)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: New Shuttle Computers
Message-ID: <1056@uncw.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 91 17:07:42 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.202334.22118@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <1991Mar5.013344.7971@umiami.ir.miami.edu> <1991Mar06.063034.12021@nowhere.uucp> <1991Mar7.010752.10632@agate.berkeley.edu>
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jwl@garnet.berkeley.edu (James Wilbur Lewis) writes:

>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

I have heard of a "military spec" for hard drives which when adhered
to guarentees hard disks which can be mounted in any attitude (upside
down or whatever) and can withstand shock of several Gs with no adverse
effects.

Of course, I would have guessed that onthe Shuttle, they would be using
solid state "drives".

Zack Sessions
session@uncw.UUCP