Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!ncsuvx!mcnc!ecsvax!cjl From: cjl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Charles Lord) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Core memory Summary: Apples/Age of Shuttle technology Message-ID: <5444@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 22 Jul 88 18:54:54 GMT References: <1486@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1010@garth.UUCP> <458@buengc.BU.EDU> <25171@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Triangle R&D Corp,RTP,NC Lines: 15 First off, semiconductor memories DO work in space. Many Getaway Specials on the Shuttle have used vanilla Apple IIs and IBM/PC motherboards for experiment control and data acquisition. Secondly, the Shuttle is OLD. My boss worked at NASA on his Ph.D research on some Shuttle systems... before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon! The hardware designs, newer than that, are still early/mid 70's. -- Charles Lord cjl@ecsvax.UUCP Usenet Cary, NC cjl@ecsvax.BITNET Bitnet #include #include