[Elecraft] Speaking of off-shore manufacture...

[Fred Jensen]

Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> Don't forget the Mars Surveyor, that crashed because they got the
> units of distance mixed up in the programming....   Stuff like that
> happens.

Transformers [the electrical kind, not the toy kind] have software?

I got about 2 1/2 years at NASA Houston working on Apollo while in the 
USAF.  Much later, when Surveyor had disappeared behind Mars, one of the 
admin people at work stopped me in the hall and said, "You must know, 
what happened?"  I told her, "They shot it down, just like we would 
have."  She kept some distance from me after that.

73,

Fred K6DGW
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