[geeks] Re: Anyone watch "60 Minutes" last night?

[Ido Dubrawsky]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:02:32PM -0600, geeks-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
> From: Mike F <lists at ibrew.net>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Anyone watch "60 Minutes" last night?
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> Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
> > They had a piece about the Hubble telescope that was
> > interesting, but what I noticed was that everyone they showed
> > "working hard at their computers" (visual filler while the
> > reporter was speaking off camera) were working on Sun
> > workstations.
> > 
> > They had 21" monitors and Sun 5 type keyboards... Didn't see
> > any workstations though...
> > 
> > Anyway, I thought it was neat... Kinda like the excitement I
> > get when I see an AT&T UnixPC/7300 in a movie set (now they
> > look like spiffy Commodore PETs, but back then I thought they
> > were good looking... Tastes change, now I love my Dual 450
> > MHz U60 - that is a nice desktop, but not much to look at.
> > ;^)
> 
> I didn't see the show last night, but I've seen several shows 
> where they were filming in observatories, and where you could
> clearly see Ultra 1s sitting on people's desks. On another show,
> you could see that they were running HP/9000 C-class machines.
> 
> 
When I worked at JPL back in '92 and '93, mission control was entirely a 
Sun shop.  It was way cool.  I think they still are just a Sun shop today.
I'll have to ask friends over there if they know.

Ido
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