4 Sep
2005
4 Sep
'05
1:05 p.m.
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 19:48:23 -0700
> I found a pile of these things this morning.
They are made by Odetics
>in Anaheim Ca. After I got home with them I realized that they are for the
>space shuttle. Does anyone know anything about them? I THINK they use a
>tape drive inside. I haven't opened one up yet but I saw the remains of a
>tape drive at the same place and I think it was the guts out of one of these.
I worked at NASA JSC in the mid-80s. Back then they definitely used
tape drives for the mass storage on their flight computer systems.
I don't know what they use today, whether they've changed or when any
changes may have occured. But back in 84 - 87 they used tape drives.
There was a thick (~3") training manual that explained the basic
system architecture in passing. If I still have a copy there's not
much hope of my finding it, but if I run across it, I'll post.
Jeff Walther