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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: New Shuttle Computers
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Date: 11 Mar 91 21:48:21 GMT
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In article <YAMAUCHI.91Mar10135135@heron.cs.rochester.edu>, yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:
>I recall that a GRID portable computer (with hard drive) *was* flown
>on a shuttle flight.  I also seem to remember that it had more
>computing power and memory than *all* of the shuttle's onboard
>computers...

Sure. But not open on someone's lap chuggin' away upon launch :-)
>
>I believe it was used for plotting the shuttle's position and
>trajectory.  Does anyone have the details?


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