[X4U] Recycling Mac's

[Mark Des Cotes]

On 11-Feb-07, at 3:07 PM, Peter Saint James wrote:

> 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.


Am I the only one who finds this unnerving?