Old stinkpads in space!

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[SteveC]

Old stinkpads in space!

Just reading the Register's story on the MS-DOS running thinkpads ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/16916.html ) (or not, as the case may be!) and have noticed a couple of things - isn't that another thinkpad mounted to the right of the running one? It had a 3com PCMCIA network card in it, and the cable's broken! just where it the cable joins the plug where it connects to the card, look closely and they've come apart! (looks like a trusty bit of sellotape (sorry, I meant sticky-back-plastic) holding it together!) Plus, they're using good old unreliable thin ethernet instead of CAT5??

Also that manual he's holding looks like it's telling him how to do the system restart.

I was about to say at least it's not Win9x - just imagine you're happily flying (?) along in space and suddenly all the screen go blue and tell you where to go with a Fatal Exception OE! But then I was just looking at a few more pics - they do run win9x god forbid!

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/...s/s98e5084.jpg

and

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/...s/s98e5030.jpg

But the best shot is this one -

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/...s/s98e5083.jpg

the thinkpad's behind him on the right and I can't see a start bar - the colour scheme and look of it doesn't look like the others - it can't be, but it looks like OS/2 or something!?


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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[SteveC]

hmm I wonder what MS-Tech Support charge for a phone call to space?

I'm sorry Sir, but if you don't have your Product ID, I cannot help you. Have a good day

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[This message has been edited by SteveC (edited 19 February 2001).]

[MultimediaMan]

Last February one of the Astronaut's Outlook.pst files went missing aboard the shuttle. I've got the MP3 of Discovery talking to Houston about it. Not the best PR....I'm glad they did't lose the OHMS deorbit burn program! (Not possible, of course, but the onboard computers used on Discovery itself are older than I am - design wise. They still use COBOL to program the flight computers from what I understand...)

Progress is wonderful, eh?