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The Ancient Computers Powering the Space Race

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the abacus-in-orbit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Think that the exploration of space is a high tech business? Technology dating back to the Apollo moon landings is still used by Nasa mission control for comms and the 1980s 386 processors that keep the International Space Station aloft."

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  1. Re:Part of the Problem by GooberToo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "But Mr. President we saved USD100M by hiring Indian programmers, which was late one year, whereby we then had to double our effort to fix all of the poor quality code resulting in an overage of roughly 2x what it would have cost to done it right and on time in the first place."

    Fixed that for you.