Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!kontron!steve From: steve@kontron.UUCP (Steve McIntosh) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: shuttle computers Message-ID: <300@kontron.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 17:02:05 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.300 Posted: Fri Jun 28 17:02:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:27:34 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 20 > From: Dale.Amon@CMU-RI-FAS > ... For the weight cost of those things, they could have 20 > real computers... The real cost of the computers is not the weight - they have been stripping the weight at lift off by such things as NOT painting the external fuel tank white. Leaving it with just a "primer" coat saved thousands of pounds. The cost of the computers is power - both to run them and for cooling. (By the way, just to annoy computer "purists" - I understand that there are quite a few 6502's on the shuttle running forth to do menial tasks like opening the bay doors. At least thats what one Rockwell employee who worked on the shuttle told me ) *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***