[meteorite-list] Re: NASA was on eBay

On Sun May 23 11:02:41 EDT 2004, Nicholas Gessler wrote: I heard that NASA was buying ferrite core memory. And I believe it to be true. Below are some articles on that subject. 1. Shuttle program seeks computer parts on eBay News Story by Brian Sullivan MAY 13, 2002 (COMPUTERWORLD)

[meteorite-list] Re: NASA was on eBay

I heard that NASA was buying ferrite core memory. And I believe it to be true. Nick At 07:44 AM 5/23/2004, MarkF wrote: Hi All get ot, but the rumor was that NASA was on ebay, buying all the xt chips they could..something about hardened chips and thats what most of the onboard puters ran on...paid