JF Mezei wrote:

On 2017-08-13 18:07, Fred J. McCall wrote:
So you change all the hardware, but build a software emulator so that
you can run the old software? What's the point?


So you can run the missions with the recorded telemetry/voice/video
data, and with the software which controlled it back then.


What good does that do you?


Restoring the original hardware so you can power it on doesn't do much
good unless you can actually run the missions. Otherwise, you just have
everything turned on on stand=by because there is nothing actually running.

So it is more important to be able to run the software with the original
telemetry data to recreate the missions than to have the authentic
restored hardware (in my opinion).


Neither is 'important'. One (restoration of hardware, etc) is
historical. The other is merely pointless.


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