Space Shuttle pics and computer update

[cartrite]

I posted this at CM too.
My father took these images from his house in Florida.
A scaled down version. Original was 3072x2304

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At full resolution, a 700x700 crop from original resolution.

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On another note, I'm patching together my damaged computer. Seems my SATA and USB drives are ok. My CPU seems to be fried. It fails when I use all 4 RAM modules. I can only use 3
My IDE drive still seems to have some life in it. It makes a lot of noise but earlier today it tried to boot. It got about half way through Win XP.

Last week I tried a very old drive that failed long ago. I actually have 2 of them. They are both Maxtor 10 GB drives, I think ATA33. The one drive was making the same noises as the 200 GB drive that failed recently. I was able to recover the 10 GB drive by swapping circuit boards with the 2 10 GB drives. This is something I'm going to try with the 200 GB drive. I'm going to take a trip to the computer recycle center to see if I can get a used circuit board for it.

My system board and/or CPU will probably have to replaced though. Also my graphics card got fried too. I'm using my old ge force fx 5500. I can't believe how slow it is compared with the 8600 that bit the dust.

Hope all is going well with you all though.
Later,
cartrite

[LordFerret]

Nice pics. Must be nice to be able to watch launches live. One of these days I hope to see one. Good luck with the pc.

[cartrite]

Those pics were taken about a 150 miles away from the launch pad so it was probably visible from a lot of Florida. He said the best view is during a night launch.

I was sent to Orlando by my Company one year for training while the shuttle was due to go off. I took a few trips down to the Cape but each time it was canceled. It ended up lifting off while I was on my way home. I was only down in Florida visiting my Dad once during a launch but it got cloudy around his house and it was not visible. Some day maybe.
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