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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. Scavenge THIS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've got some parts for sale. Private parts.

    You can take them on a trip around Ur-anus and search for kling-ons.

  2. Irrelevant Posty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    *BSD & Lunix are dying.

  3. Emulation... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    is key. We need to work on low-heat, low-energy emulator chips and record the various characteristics of these aging components in software. It's not like the old stuff runs too quickly to emulate properly. Count Dokoo chops Anakin's arm off, escapes with Death Star Plans. It'd be a nice neat way to replace old microchips without stretching the budget.

    Emulation is the best way to go.

  4. Re:Shuttles until 2020 (or beyond), B-52s until 20 by gotak · · Score: 2, Troll

    Sept 11 didn't make people any smarter. No they sent off the army to a country that has more problems then just the taliban. Beat up the taliban and now what? Try to prevent civil war from starting up again? I think the situation there has great potential of becoming another festering pocket of trouble ready to burst uppon the world again.

  5. Re:Wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow...shut your fucking mouth asshole. Americans suck ass for the most part and still think they rule. News flash, yes you do suck and the whole world hates you.