Nasa use Amigas?

[StuKeith]

was looking at the nasa site and came across these pictures. They seem to look very amiga like!

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/1...SC201_long.gif

[AlexJ]

Yeah, I'm sure there's a video somewhere showing a bunch of Amigas being used at NASA. I'll see if I can dig it up.

EDIT: Not quite video, but some photos:

[Harrison]

Nice.

Do they still use them or are these images from some time ago?

[AlexJ]

Not sure, having said that, a lot of NASA's technology is old stuff because they know how it works and know it's going to be reliable. You don't want something to crash when it's in charge of bringing people back to earth from space.

[FOL]

Apparently, they use some to track low orbit satelites. Why cause Amiga's are reliable.

[Harrison]

You also have the instant on and off aspect of the Amiga, plus very fast OS booting from HD, which is still a huge issue for PCs if they crash.