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Why would they need Norton Utilities up there ?!

• rtkwe 8y ago
  Probably a NASA/government requirement that all computers have some sort of antivirus and that's what they used at the time. The computers up there are networked with the ground so it's not that weird of a requirement.
  • starsinspace 8y ago
    Norton Utilities was not an anti-virus though, it was an utility package for things like data rescue. Back then, the stuff from Norton was widely considered best-in-class software... so very much unlike today. Sad how that brand name was ruined.
    • craftyguy 8y ago
      Perhaps it was in case there was a disk failure? I'd like to think they had storage redundancy up there (and they probably do), and NASA likes to have contingency plans for contingency plans for contingency plans.
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• starbeast 8y ago
  For the utility of astronortons.
  • adetrest 8y ago
    I chuckled