Nate Duehr wrote:
> Watching downlink video, even I can see that laptop computers are flown
> regularly as part of standard hardware.  What *are* you talking about?

I have seen that, and I wondered about the hard drives. At low
absolute pressure, the disks would crash. I don't know what the
functional lower limit is for barometric pressure to maintain
operation, but I would suspect it is at least a few PSI. Consequently,
maybe they use sealed hard drives on those computers, just in case? Or
perhaps they have more important things to worry about if they have to
depressurize.

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MTP Technologies
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