I seem to remember a Scientific American article from the 1980s where they also had to rewrite code around a dead bit in RAM. They've done some pretty drastic c

I seem to remember a Scientific American article from the 1980s where they also had to rewrite code around a dead bit in RAM. They've done some pretty drastic changes since, like using the backup computer to add image compression on the fly (lots more detail here): http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html