Done pretty well for a 25 year old clunker with a quarter of a billion km on the clock.
Seems kinda sad that it will end up gathering dust in some museum.
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Seems kinda sad that it will end up gathering dust in some museum.
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Done pretty well for a 25 year old clunker with a quarter of a billion miles on the clock.
Seems kinda sad that it will end up gathering dust in some museum.
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Buying spare parts from eBay... when was the last time you saw a Zilog Z-80 or an Intel 8080?
It's the end of an era, for sure, and I'm not confident in the USA policy of making space exploration a private, corporate affair. Time will tell.
One of my favorite gigs involved several retired astronauts and military aviators. Without exception a bunch of very classy, smart and amazingly humble guys. The space program paid off in human terms, too. It's our loss, now.
Buying spare parts from eBay... when was the last time you saw a Zilog Z-80 or an Intel 8080?
Surprisingly recently actually - 8080 ? Must be one of those new fangled jobs...
Well, now that NASA has been repurposed, and its priority has become to "...to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering -- science, math and engineering..." (NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden in an Al-Jazeera interview) we don't need this aging toy, and maybe we can sell it on eBay.
You have to be kidding me. I'm not up to date on all that's happening with the Space Program, but if that's where they're headed, I'm quickly losing faith in this country! ~:-(~:sad:
http://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html
( My 1st MPU job was M6800. )
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