Was there any scientific equipment made for Amiga?

[Nikodem]

Wow, those NASA computers look great. Are they still in use? or at least were they still in use when the Space Shuttles were in use?

 

[bdb]

No they were taken out of service a few years ago, but nobody fesses up as to who has them. The last one was in use in 2006 I believe. They would be one of the rarest Amiga's to hit the market.

 

[Paul_s]

I remember seeing one of those NASA Amiga's on eBay a couple of years ago...

 

[SunDown79]

These folks use them in a lab :
http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/ME/labs/index.php (dont ask me for what precisely though )

 

[57Chevy]

Well I used to have mine next to my old lab, but I used it for word processing and image manipulation of specimens. Not actual data input or analysis.

 

[mjnurney]

http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/amiganasa_en.php

Have you seen this ?

 

[bdb]

Yeah, several years ago. Isn't this the 1996 page?

 

[AndyLandy]

http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/amiganasa_en.php

Have you seen this ?

Y'know Justin already posted that link in this very thread, right?

 

[8bit]

I remember seeing one of those NASA Amiga's on eBay a couple of years ago...

Yep, I got one of them, a A2000.

Here is some pictures of the cards, there was inside: http://www.8bit.dk/pictures/Amiga/Communications/NASA Cards From A2000/index.html

 

[bdb]

Wow, what are they?

 

[ChaosLord]

That and the A2000 gear NASA use to use.

I assume that for NASA to use them, they'd have had to be 'mil-spec' A2000s, right?

:run:

All Amiga 2000s are Milspec as defined by decree of the European Union. Lead-based solder cannot be used in consumer electronics. Lead-based solder may only be used in military systems and satellites because the government wants those systems to be reliable.

All Amiga 2000s use lead-based solder.

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NASA certainly had a fleet of A4000's, I remember seeing pictures of them with a NASA sticker on the front.

We used to have all our C64 user group meetings and then in 1986 our Amiga user group meetings in the Press Room of NASA. Lots of NASA guys had C64s and/or Amigas. The Press Room is the room you always saw on TV every time something blew up.

When Challenger blew up we had to change our meeting place to a room by the NASA basketball court.

The C64 group and Amiga group were great fun back in the day. I think I feel of case of Retro Fever coming on. *achoo*

 

[bdb]

Can't compete with that! Even if it is off topic.

 

[ChaosLord]

I am not clear as to what counts as "scientific equipment".

Does GPIO count?

If so then the Symposium Voicemail card had a bunch of GPIO lines coming off of it. The examples given included turning the lights in your house off and on.

I can't remember if they could be used as inputs or not. But given all crazy stuff you could do with that card, I would say its a decent chance.

It had at least 1 A/D converter to digitize voice from the phone. It may have had many more... I just can't remember. It has been so long ago. Both my Symposiums broke after a few months and I lost interest.

Had it worked reliably it would have become the best voicemail card for Amiga.