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From: eagle@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel L'Hommedieu)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: New Shuttle Computers
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Date: 18 Mar 91 23:13:28 GMT
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msjohnso@daisy.WichitaKS.NCR.COM (Mark Johnson) writes:
>I wonder if they've considered using CD-ROM as a storage medium for the control
>programs. It's rugged, the drives can be lighter than tapes, the media is
>not alterable except by drastic accident on-board, etc.

Have you ever used a CD player?  I don't think a CD-ROM is a viable
alternative, as it is very easy to "skip" a CD player (for instance,
just tap or hit the desk near a CD player and listen to it skip).  I
should think that the g-forces and vibrations experienced during launch
would be too harsh for the CD-ROM drive.

>Well, maybe someday.... 

>Mark Johnson

Daniel
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