Morris Minor Owners Club

les wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2026 9:11 pm I’ve been having more issues with ‘Timed out’ notifications, the message board seems ok one minute and hopeless the next. Ok now, hence the post. Imagine if this unreliability was present on NASA voyages to the moon. We’d never see the crew again, drifting aimlessly in space. Wonder what computer system they have.

simmitc wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2026 9:29 am All recent problems on Messageboard relate to sustained attack from offshore. As discussed elsewhere, I have been battling that. Now mostly resolved with just a couple of residual issues. On Saturday, Committee approved expenditure for additional security measures that should hopefully put an end to the problem.

As regards original moon landings, the computing power was distinctly limited, but my understanding is that three separate machines performed the same calculations. If there was a different answer from one, then the result used was the "majority vote" from the other two as it meant that the first had developed a fault. Not recorded what happened if they were all different - presumably back to the slide rule and log tables.

Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2026 12:11 pm I like the story of Nasa commissioning the development of a ball point pen that could write in zero gravity. The Rusians took a pencil

les wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2026 9:11 pm I’ve been having more issues with ‘Timed out’ notifications, the message board seems ok one minute and hopeless the next. Ok now, hence the post. Imagine if this unreliability was present on NASA voyages to the moon. We’d never see the crew again, drifting aimlessly in space. Wonder what computer system they have.

Mervin wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2026 9:48 am There was also the Omega Speedmaster (Moonwatch). Hand wound because an automatic movement apparently wouldn't "wind up" in zero gravity.