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Re:Rare Photos of the Russian "Buran" space program by dylanz on Saturday October 24, 2009 @05:34PM (#900963)
Exactly. Every picture of space shuttle control panels "look" old, but are (most likely) state of the art technology. It must be the beige toned cases that immediately make us think "rickety looking". They are created to work, by NASA... not make by Apple, in order to look sharp.
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Re:Rare Photos of the Russian "Buran" space program by Tuna-Fish on Saturday October 24, 2009 @08:41PM (#901092)
Actually, the computers used for mission-critical systems are very old. Generally to keep the electronics big enough that an alpha particle hitting the box does not give off enough energy to flip a bit and corrupt the program.
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Re:Rare Photos of the Russian "Buran" space program by gaius on Sunday October 25, 2009 @04:41AM (#901410)
Like the iBridge on the new USS Enterprise ;-)
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