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| Yeti-GBR1 2001-04-25, 1:03 am |
| Something that I was sent via email:
We Are Not Alone
On Friday the 24th I was watching the NASA channel on cable TV to see how the experiments and Shuttle crew were doing. The men onboard needed to obtain instructions and send results concerning the experiments in the cargo bay, and were using a laptop to do this. As some of you may have heard, there was a "computer problem" onboard, as reported by CNN. The exchange of information between the crew and the Johnson Space Center (JSC) went something like this:
Crew: Urgent Johnson, we can't get a DOS prompt.
JSC: Press C: enter.
Crew: Heck, we're not familiar with all this.
JSC: What screen are you looking at?
Crew: It says 'My Computer', and, er, various other icons.
JSC: Click on 'Start' and then shut down.
Crew: You click the 'Start' button to shut down?
JSC: Yeah. Isn't it obvious?
Crew: Somebody get me an aspirin.
JSC: Just hit the 'Start' button!
Crew: We can't do that. It didn't load a mouse.
JSC: Didn't load any mouse at all?
Crew: Well, yeah, a PS/2 or something. But we don't have one of those.
JSC: Okay. Press Alt + Esc.
Crew: And what does that do?
JSC: It should help.
Crew: Negative.
JSC: Stand by, will replicate the problem down here.
Crew: Roger.
~ Long pause ~
JSC: Okay then. Double click the MS-DOS icon.
Crew: I don't have a mouse.
JSC: Go to backup.
Crew: Which is what?
JSC: Dock with the Russians. They have a Unix Workstation you can borrow!  | |
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| If they brought Windows on the Space Shuttle, I can't help thinking that they deserved this. | |
| dentonb2000 2001-04-25, 5:19 am |
| what makes it worse is they are actually looking for a "dos prompt". Scary, the fact that they would be using a "dos application".
What year is this anyways? | |
| ccieToBe 2001-04-25, 11:33 am |
| Oh gaud, please tell me that Windows isn't controlling anything important up there. | |
| usnretired 2001-04-25, 1:07 pm |
| Does anyone remember which OS they were using on SkyLab? | |
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