[Coco] Jingo - Jango - Mars

[jdaggett at gate.net]

At best it would have been used in one of the many experiments 
that were often carried on board in the early days. I do know that in 
some of the first 10 missions some of the experiments used RCA 
1802 CPUs only because at the time they were the only CMOS 
radiation hardened ICs. SOme where around STS 20 to 30 some of 
the experiments actually used Aplle IIEs as the controller for data 
accumallation.  

It would not surprise me if one or two experiments actually used a 
variant of the COCO and OS9 for a controller to run an experiment 
or two. But as for actual controlling the shuttlem, not in one's wildest 
dream. 

james

On 15 Jan 2004 at 13:35, Roger Taylor wrote:

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> At 11:51 AM 1/15/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >Now theres a thought.  I've been told that for a while at least, the
> >shuttle computers were 6809 machines running os9.  Can anyone
> >confirm/deny that?
> 
> Oh, "GIME" a break.
> 
> That stemmed probably from a short comment somewhere about some form
> of OS-9 being used somewhere on the shuttle, and I have never even
> found proof in any of it.  The shuttle is loaded with high-speed
> computer equipment, and I highly doubt are beloved 6809 plays any
> major response-intensive role.  If OS-9 ran the coffeemaker, I would
> be totally surprised.
> 
> Ofcourse, there's a sad joke in all of this... maybe the reason 2 of
> our shuttles blew up is because they had the IRQs hard-wired like a
> lot of OS-9/MPI users did.  Maybe someone who had done that hack
> before had crippled the shuttle's OS-9 by running a wire directly into
> the CPU's IRQ line?  I dunno.  :)
> 
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