> I remember hearing that the shuttle program was having to scrounge for old CPUs from warehouses because someone of the processors it used were no longer manuf

> I remember hearing that the shuttle program was having to scrounge for old CPUs from warehouses because someone of the processors it used were no longer manufactured, and they didn't want to make changes to the hardware. Indeed they were literally buying Shuttle replacement parts from eBay: https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/us/for-parts-nasa-boldly-goes-on-ebay.html https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/us/for-parts-nasa-boldly-...