On Thursday 18 December 2003 03:00 pm, Samuel MacDonald wrote: > To think we sent men to space using slide rules. I got to thinking about this last night. This data is off the top of my head, but maybe we should go back to slide rules. If I remember correctly we've lost 3 astronauts to slide rules (Apollo 1) and 14 to computers (Challanger and Columbia). -- Ben Maas - Technology Architect Open Technology Systems, LLC ----------------------------------------------------------- eMail: bmaas at open-techsys.com Web: http://www.open-techsys.com Phone: 952.448.3121 Fax: 952.448.4944 Cell: 612.743.3674 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list