Yeah, people do try to find things that are not really there don't they?
Its often the case with experiments that you do not need complexity. Indeed,
using Dos on a cut down lump of pc hardware gathering data from experiments
is probably far more reliable than most other operating systems.

As for keeping it secret... Pardon, it was know very long time ago that
data recovery was being attempted on a lot of recovered gear. If there is no
rush, then the more data you can get the better.

Have you ever tried to reconstruct a hard drive and read the platters after
such an event? No neither have I and to get anything is quite a triumph I
would say.

Brian

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"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message
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wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/...recovered_data

On the Net:

NASA write-up of the experiment whose data was recovered:

http://tinyurl.com/44nqgv

the news article tried to downplay the use of the DOS operating system
as the OS for the space shuttle,

DOS was never the OS for the space shuttle. The space shuttle carried
experiments from many different agencies and some of them used DOS. That
does not mean that DOS was the OS for the space shuttle.