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I heard NASA used their Amiga systems clear up to 2006, which is a rather unusually long lifespan for the application they intended them for. But I suppose comm
by TheAmazingRace 1y ago
I heard NASA used their Amiga systems clear up to 2006, which is a rather unusually long lifespan for the application they intended them for. But I suppose commodity PC hardware and the software they needed just wasn't really there at a price point that made sense, plus, I guess as the old adage goes... if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
- sillywalk 1y ago> I heard NASA used their Amiga systems Yes. "Amigas take in all the telemetry data from the spacecraft, scale it by applying coefficients of up to fifth order polynomials and convert the data back to engineering units for display to the engineers working the launch."[1] [0] https://hackaday.com/2021/08/16/retrotechtacular-amiga-pips-the-pc-for-mission-critical-computing-at-nasa/ https://hackaday.com/2021/08/16/retrotechtacular-amiga-pips-... [1] http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/amiganasa_en.php http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/amiganasa_en.p... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAPD9HA8Unw&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAPD9HA8Unw&t=1s
- drewp 1y agohttps://www.modd3d.com/articles/item/waterworld-show-control-retrofit https://www.modd3d.com/articles/item/waterworld-show-control... The document is sadly 404 now, but this was an awesome nerdy writeup of the conversion of the Universal Studios Waterworld from Amigas in 2007.