23 Mar
2004
23 Mar
'04
10:05 a.m.
From: "ben franchuk"
<bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
Michael Sokolov wrote:
> My new VAX will be completely open source hardware: I'll open-source the
Verilog
code. There
will be no problem with fabbing it right there on Mars.
Umm stupid question. Can you run the development and bootstrap software
on a vax?
23 Mar
23 Mar
10:15 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:05:52PM -0800, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
The biggest problem you'll have is that hard
disks will
fail on Mars. The atmosphere is not thick enough to float
the heads. You'll have to go back to paper tape and punch
cards.
They barely work here! Hard drives do not like operating at 10,000' as
much as they do below 8,000' (and the dry air doesn't conduct heat away
from them very well... strangely enough, we have
overheating problems
all over Antarctica, worse so at altitude).
-ethan
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11:52 a.m.
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
The biggest problem you'll have is that hard
disks will
fail on Mars. The atmosphere is not thick enough to float
the heads. You'll have to go back to paper tape and punch
cards.
How about Bubble Memory?
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