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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 networke
by 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 agoNorton 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 agoPerhaps 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.