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Re:George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of ... by blub on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:46AM (#17529450)
That's not what I found online: the devices running customized SW were apparently used as personal calculators by the crew and they would have also used them for manual calculation in case their flight computer had a problem.

They weren't connected to other shuttle computers, were they?

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Re:George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of ... by stevenwoo on Saturday July 14, 2018 @06:36PM (#17532763)
I found multiple stories/blogs with recollections like this one from Smithsonian including the use of calculators on early missions before laptops were used:

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/calculator-han...

I remembered reading it in the newspapers at the time which would have probably make the reports generally pre internet (or pre newspapers on the internet) in the 1980's. Of course I could be remembering it wrong or it could have been a HP calculator ad.

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