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Questions that should be asked

Questions that should be asked

Posted Feb 26, 2013 19:34 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Questions that should be asked by man_ls
Parent article: ABS: Android in space

the shuttles were 'upgraded' to 486 class computers after the turn of the century.

If you wait for everything to be 'space rated', you end up running very old technology, which can end up being horribly inefficent.

I believe the AA batteries, and I do not expect that they are rechargeable


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