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		dangerboysteve on Sept 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is anybody still using Windows 95? What did the ISA boards do? Also the name sounded familiar, this was the radio telescope which incurred damage recently.

ajford on Sept 8, 2020 [–]

The ISA board was a custom interface to a number of GPS receivers and some IO chips for time sync calibration and tracking for Pulsar astronomy.

And yes, this is the one that recently suffered a cable failure that damaged the reflector.

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