[X4U] Recycling Mac's

[Peter Saint James]

	You would be surprised who wants old computer equipment.

	I threw away some stuff that was so old that I figured no one could  
use it anymore.  It had 8" floppy drives, for example.  "Who would  
ever use that?" I thought.

	A few months later I found out NASA was looking for just the stuff I  
threw out.  It seems that the space shuttles have old computer  
equipment in them.  Since everything in those vehicles is so tightly  
integrated with everything else, it's difficult to replace just one  
component.  So they keep finding replacement parts for these ancient  
systems.  Or at least, that's how I got the story.


							Peter