Watching downlink video, even I can see that laptop computers are flown regularly as part of standard hardware. What *are* you talking about? Nate Duehr, nate@natetech.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter L. Peres" To: Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [PIC]: Shuttle related question > On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Tal wrote: > > *>Must be INTEL..... > > ?! > > At least one PIC went on a Shuttle mission. Ditto embedded Linux afaik > (probably on Motorola but I am not sure). They probably choose > commercially hardware after they drop it off cliff. If it works after that > they take it up. I'd be wary of a laptop. The screen could shatter or > something and hen you can't see a thing and the disks will crash hard if > the cabin pressure is lost. > > I suspect that the flight related hardware is not of civilian design. > > Peter > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.