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From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: New Computer, Erasable Optical Disk
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Date: 31 Jan 90 17:33:15 GMT
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In article <4831@convex.convex.com> dodson@convex.com (Dave Dodson) writes:
<In article <15104@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
<#How Bout That Dept.: The new AvWeek reports that NASA's going to
<#qualify their first new flight computer in 19 years for the Shuttle,
<#a 2 1/4 MIPS Raytheon supermini (licensed to DEC).
<#The new system will be tested on a Hitchhiker payload bay experiment
<#package this November.  If tests are OK they'll repeat in 1992.
<#(By the time it's hopelessly obsolete, it should be about ready to
<#fly as real mission hardware.)
<

I leanrned yesterday that NASA is also working of flight-qualifying
a Mac II portable for onboard experiment control systems. It should
first fly around 1992.


                                                      *** mike smithwick ***

"Never trust a surgeon with shaving cuts. . ."
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]