13 May
2002
13 May
'02
10:49 a.m.
At 07:52 AM 5/13/02 -0400, Doug wrote:
Good Morning,
I think this may have come up some weeks back...
But among 8-inch floppy drives and other unspecified
items, NASA is buying up all the 8086 microprocessors
they can lay their hands on,
Where did you hear this? I deal with NASA frequently (as recently as last Wednesday) and
I've nver heard remotely like this. I did supply two boxs of 8" floppy disks to
NASA a couple of months ago but that was all thye wanted. I could supplied close to 100
boxs of new disks but they only wanted two boxs in order to keep one system running. That
certainly doesn't qualify as "buying up all they can lay their hands on".
specifically, to keep the
Space Shuttle flying. Not the more common 8088, of
course, but its 16-bit big brother.
Although as government agencies go, NASA doesn't have
deep pockets, it certainly has deeper ones than I do.
I should count my recent acquisition of the IBM 8 inch
external floppy drive as a soon-to-be-rare occurance.
Anyone else here ticked of that not only are they
trying to keep that questionable pig flying, but
they are doing it by reducing further the quantity
of collectable stuff? Screw the boost in value...
8086s collectable? Yeah right! Only if you believe the rants of the E-bay sellers!
Joe
PS I just ran a number of Google searches looking for anything related to Nasa wanting
8086 CPUs and I got ZERO hits.