Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: GRiD computer onboard Orbiter Message-ID: <1985@kalliope.rice.edu> Date: 10 Oct 88 18:22:32 GMT References: <6880@dasys1.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Distribution: na Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 15 Oh yeah. I had forgotten about that little guy. It doesn't have any actual control during flight, but I imagine that the crew considers it indispensable. There is room on the flight deck (to your right as you look out the payload bay windows) for a desktop-style computer. I understand that some missions carry them for certain on-board experiments. So there is newer computer technology on board the shuttle, it's just not used for direct control of the vehicle. I imagine that these other on board computers have helped them decide just what hardware will tolerate the unusual environment and what can be trusted in future versions of the GPCs. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University