Bidding Against NASA

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon May 13 10:17:56 2002

I suspect that all this is, in the words of Mark Twain, "Greatly Exaggerated."
Joe.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: Bidding Against NASA


> At 07:52 AM 5/13/02 -0400, Doug wrote:
> >Good Morning,
> >
> >I think this may have come up some weeks back...
> >
> >But among 8-inch floppy drives and other unspecified
> >items, NASA is buying up all the 8086 microprocessors
> >they can lay their hands on,
>
>
> Where did you hear this? I deal with NASA frequently (as recently as last
Wednesday) and I've nver heard remotely like this. I did supply two boxs of 8"
floppy disks to NASA a couple of months ago but that was all thye wanted. I
could supplied close to 100 boxs of new disks but they only wanted two boxs in
order to keep one system running. That certainly doesn't qualify as "buying up
all they can lay their hands on".
>
>
> specifically, to keep the
> >Space Shuttle flying. Not the more common 8088, of
> >course, but its 16-bit big brother.
> >
> >Although as government agencies go, NASA doesn't have
> >deep pockets, it certainly has deeper ones than I do.
> >I should count my recent acquisition of the IBM 8 inch
> >external floppy drive as a soon-to-be-rare occurance.
> >
> >Anyone else here ticked of that not only are they
> >trying to keep that questionable pig flying, but
> >they are doing it by reducing further the quantity
> >of collectable stuff? Screw the boost in value...
>
> 8086s collectable? Yeah right! Only if you believe the rants of the
E-bay sellers!
>
>
> Joe
>
> PS I just ran a number of Google searches looking for anything related to
Nasa wanting 8086 CPUs and I got ZERO hits.
>
>
>
Received on Mon May 13 2002 - 10:17:56 BST