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NASA Parts Scroungers Resort To eBay For Parts

Posted by timothy on from the no-reserve-must-see-1st-owner dept.

beggs writes: "The New York Times is running this article about NASA using ebay and other web resources to find for sale stock piles of old hardware it needs to keep the Space Shuttle fleet up and running -- things like 8086 chips from pre-PC days!" Come to think of it, this might be a better way to take care of most NASA bidding anyhow.

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  1. Re:It's NASA's problem now... by orkysoft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If your software runs on a generic Un*x system and compiles with e.g. gcc, and is properly written and documented, you shouldn't need to worry much about migrating to a new platform, it'd just involve possibly some code tweaking and recompiling, right?

    Most of the time I download a program from Sourceforge, the README file lists about 20 different environments it'll compile in.

    Now that's future-proofing!

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  2. SETI@HOME by Frank+of+Earth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No wonder we can't find life in outer space. Those 8086's must take years just process one download!

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