ees1ae@moria.ee.surrey.ac.uk (Ata Etemadi) (04/22/91)
Dear Colleagues In this message I will try to be brief and to the point. If interested, please contact me for further information. Would you be willing to help Russian space scientists ? The problem is one of shortage of computing facilities. There is very little capital available. Mostly what is needed is hardware for analysing the years of wonderful spacecraft data just gathering dust. I am asking for contributions of hardware and/or software of any type, age or description. Your old terminals, your PC's gathering dust in the basement, any old tape drives, any micros or minis of whatever make, in short anything that works but you no longer need, or use. On the S/W front the same things apply. All contributions are welcome. We have managed to overcome the problem of delivering the items to the scientists. When I know what maybe on offer I can check further about export licences etc.. Also its possible there may be funds for obtaining any cheap second-hand equipment on offer. Arrangements maybe made for sharing the spacecraft data in return. PLEASE HELP!! Just imagine the data from the fleet which met Halley. regards Dr A. Etemadi =============================================================================== Dr. A. Etemadi, | Phone: (0483) 571-281 Ext. 2311 V.S.S.P. Group, | Fax : (0483) 300-803 Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Eng., | Email: University of Surrey, | Janet: a.etemadi@ee.surrey.ac.uk Guildford, | ata@c.mssl.ucl.ac.uk Surrey GU2 5XH | SPAN : ata@mssl United Kingdom | ata@msslc ===============================================================================
eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) (04/22/91)
>Call for used computer equipment to the USSR.
Point of information.
Despite the thaw in the cold war, many countries still maintain
stringent controls on computer technology to the USSR. Simply sending
material can result in serious breach of laws in certain countries.
Special interest groups like Armenian and Ukrainian descendents have
certain points they wish to get across.
I am sympathetic to the Soviet Space program, having met with them at
one time, but I suggest individuals contact their Dept. or Ministries
of State before exporting technology, lest you have investigators
come knocking at your door (or institutions receiving protestors).
This goes for software as well.
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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