http://q103albany.com Albany's #1 Rock Station Sat, 25 May 2013 16:30:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://q103albany.com/nasa-is-unplugging-the-big-iron-tech-tuesday/ http://q103albany.com/nasa-is-unplugging-the-big-iron-tech-tuesday/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:14 +0000 Big Rich http://q103albany.com/?p=65421 Ever since the days of the Mercury flights, there has been "Big Iron" at NASA. "Big Iron" is slang for a computer mainframe, capable of running millions of computations a second. But with the current computer age and the power in a desktop or even a laptop, for what NASA does, those mainframes just are not needed any more. So, they are unplugging the last one.

]]> http://q103albany.com/nasa-is-unplugging-the-big-iron-tech-tuesday/feed/ 0 Photo Courtesy of NASA http://q103albany.com/tech-tuesday-50th-anniversary-of-manned-space-flight/ http://q103albany.com/tech-tuesday-50th-anniversary-of-manned-space-flight/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:30:33 +0000 Big Rich http://q103albany.com/?p=12213 It was 50 years ago today that man first successfully ventured into outer space. Yuri Gagarin, a Russian pilot and cosmonaut, was the first man to complete an orbit. He instantly became a world wide celebrity and kicked the Cold War and space race, into overdrive.

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