new addition: grid laptop

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed Aug 6 22:37:00 1997

>he got it from a guy who worked in the aerospace industry who said this
>machine was supposedly used to compute some kind of vectors or something or
>other for the space shuttle program back in the 80's although i have no way

When I was in DC in the early 90's the "National Aerospace Museum" had a
Grid Laptop in part of their computer/aerospace exibit, and it was in the
Space Shuttle section. However, I think that one was a IBM clone running
DOS or Windows.

                        Zane


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Received on Wed Aug 06 1997 - 22:37:00 BST

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