“NASA needs parts no one makes anymore.
So to keep the shuttles flying, the space agency has begun trolling the Internet including Yahoo and eBay to find replacement parts for electronic gear that would strike a home computer user as primitive.”
“NASA needs parts no one makes anymore.
So to keep the shuttles flying, the space agency has begun trolling the Internet including Yahoo and eBay to find replacement parts for electronic gear that would strike a home computer user as primitive.”
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Believe it or not, I have done a lot of work for/with NASA, including design of some electronics flying on ISS. Nothing from home stock though, although I do have a few old "trash 80's", TI's, and coco's with 8086s, but only a few, not the hundreds NASA wants. My kids learned on a 1979 coco.
BTW, our local aerospace surplus store quit selling surplus damaged NAS quality bolts and other parts, seems the vendors were buying and replating and selling back as new. You can still get a 166 MHz PII computer there for $8, incl. 1G harddrive.