Ken Shirriff on Nostr: The Space Shuttle could hold a flying laboratory called Spacelab in its cargo bay. ...

The Space Shuttle could hold a flying laboratory called Spacelab in its cargo bay. Three French-made computers ran Spacelab. I opened up a Spacelab computer and found that instead of a microprocessor, it is built from a multitude of simple chips. Let's take a closer look at the computer...