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Shuttle SS51 Reviewed

Posted by michael on from the cute-and-quiet dept.

hilldaddy writes "AnandTech has a review up of the new Shuttle SS51 XPC. Looks like they finally added an AGP slot. Read the review." We've done several previous stories on the Shuttle mini-PC systems.

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  1. Ratter stupid name by MouseR · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    considering a very resembling STS-51 less successful one.

    1. Re:Ratter stupid name by plaa · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      considering a very resembling STS-51 less successful one.

      Agreed. I read the headline, skimmed the text and thought, "why the hell is there a news item about an AGP slot being added to a space shuttle?"

      Only after checking the article did it become clear...

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      I doubt, therefore I may be.
    2. Re:Ratter stupid name by dillon_rinker · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      That was my first thought, too, when I say the headline. I wonder if the company intended it as a tribute, albeit an arcane one. Regardless, it lends itself to all sorts of tasteless humor.

    3. Re:Ratter stupid name by Plutor · · Score: 2, Offtopic

      Actually, the Challenger mission was actually mission "51-L". STS-51 came 7 years later, and involved a four-times-aborted launch of the Discovery.

  2. Oh, THAT shuttle by ReelOddeeo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Shuttle SS51 Reviewed

    My first thought was: isn't it a little bit late?

    Didn't they review this thing to death after shuttle 51 blew up 108 seconds after liftoff in 1986? Wasn't the shuttle fleet grounded for two years?

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    Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
  3. INTERESTING READ: by _ph1ux_ · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    all the comments of the crew before and during launch:

    http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.Projects/Human.Ex pl oration.and.Development.of.Space/Human.Space.Fligh t/Shuttle/Shuttle.Missions/Flight.025.STS-51-L/STS -51-L.Transcript.and.History

    last comments:

    T+1:10............CDR Roger, go at throttle up.
    (NASA: SSME at 104 percent.

    T+1:13............PLT Uhoh.

    T+1:13.......................LOSS OF ALL DATA.