wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley) (12/14/90)
> My peripheral hearing was that both the main and backup computers > SMOKED, ie had hardware/electrical problems. > > I know FORTH let's you get close to the iron but burn it????!!!!??? According to the newspaper article that I read, one hypothesis is that the air intake filters on the computers clogged up with lint, causing the computers to overheat due to insufficent airflow. Apparantly, in zero-G, dust tends to float around rather than settling on surfaces, so the air tends to be laden with it. It's the simple things that kill you! Mitch