It was an exaggeration, but it seems that the Shuttle was using computers which were a '70s, then a '90s version of a '60s design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

It was an exaggeration, but it seems that the Shuttle was using computers which were a '70s, then a '90s version of a '60s design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AP-101 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AP-101 At least the '90s upgrade removed the ferrous core memory.