Fwd: Naked Mini Broke

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Fri Feb 2 21:00:30 2001

Sellam Ismail skrev:

>On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, James Willing wrote:

>> >I'm a tech at United Space Alliance in Cape Canaveral Florida. I have a
>> >Computer Automation LSI 2 computer that doesn't boot up and I'm not sure
>> >why. We use this computer to run automated tests on the space shuttle Ku
>> >band comm systems and need to get it fixed fairly quickly. Can you help?
>> >if so, drop me a line and we'll see if we can work something out.

>Holy crap. Why is an aerospace company still using such an old-assed
>computer? Anyway, I may be able to help them.

What's wrong with old-arsed computer anyway???
BTW, I read somewhere that the space shuttle actually used core memory,
apparently due to the bad resistance towards radiation in older IC memory.
Could anyone confirm whether this still holds true?

--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6.
When does a system administrator do the first backup?
The first day on the job after the system administrator who never did.
Received on Fri Feb 02 2001 - 21:00:30 GMT

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