Magnetic Memory making a comeback?

From: emanuel stiebler <emu_at_ecubics.com>
Date: Wed Jun 11 13:08:00 2003

Gary Dean Hildebrand wrote:
> As a humorous sideline: When NASA spent thousands of dollars trying to
> make a pen work in zero-G, the Russians simply used a pencil . . . .

Which was a smart thing to do, this way they got rid of all static in
space having all this graphite flying around through the air ...
;-)
Received on Wed Jun 11 2003 - 13:08:00 BST

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