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RE: RE: starship-design: unmanned missions



On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, L. Parker wrote:

> Kelly,
> 
> My understanding was that the original shuttle computers were running some
> sort of version of DOS on 8086s. Is this true?
> 
Depends on what you mean by 'original'.  AFAIK, the apollo missions had an
on-board computer, I beleive it was analog.  TTYL!



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