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

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Lionel Peterson wrote:

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> 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.
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> They had 21" monitors and Sun 5 type keyboards... Didn't see any workstations though...
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> 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 have a lot of friends who are astrophysicist/astronomers. And a lot of
their wares run on SUN for whatever reason. They are introducing more and
more linux to the mix though.

On a sadder note, it seems that NASA made its mind about decomisioning the
Hubble pretty soon, :(