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Other brands of calculators in space
Message #1 Posted by hecube on 23 Aug 2009, 1:30 p.m.

Is anyone aware of other brands of calculators going up in space? Is there any info on what russian and chinese astronauts brought with them up there?

      
Re: Other brands of calculators in space
Message #2 Posted by Joerg Woerner on 23 Aug 2009, 3:24 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by hecube

The microwave oven used in the ISS is a standard Panasonic (Matsushita) model ;-))

Regards, Joerg

            
Re: Other brands of calculators in space
Message #3 Posted by hecube on 23 Aug 2009, 4:40 p.m.,
in response to message #2 by Joerg Woerner

Is it RPN?!

                  
Re: Other brands of calculators in space
Message #4 Posted by Mark Edmonds on 23 Aug 2009, 4:54 p.m.,
in response to message #3 by hecube

I've seen a Russian calc on ebay that was claimed to have been in space. I've no idea of the make, nor do I know any Russian makes and I didn't pay much attention because I didn't have much faith in the truth of the auction - too easy to fake something like that and how would you prove it?

I think it would be a fairly safe bet that the Russians never used HP up until they started sharing Mir and then became part of the ISS establishment when HPs would have been on-board. I am only guessing on the last two, simply because those would be the only times the Russians had other country's astronauts on board who might bring along an HP.

Mark

      
Re: Other brands of calculators in space
Message #5 Posted by Thomas Radtke on 23 Aug 2009, 4:59 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by hecube

"The MK-52 was used as a backup to the onboard computers of the Soyuz spacecraft on the Soyuz TM-7 mission to the Mir space station."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika_MK-52

            
Re: Other brands of calculators in space
Message #6 Posted by hecube on 23 Aug 2009, 6:43 p.m.,
in response to message #5 by Thomas Radtke

Once again I bow to the collective wisdom of the internet.

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