Just because Something is Old …

High Tech in the 70’s, Shuttles Feel Their Age, NY Times

“After the postponement on July 13, Michael D. Griffin, the NASA administrator, told reporters at a news conference he wondered “whether I could find a single electronics box in my house that’s 25 years old and still works, and I don’t think I can.”

Editor’s note: Gee Mike, I have an electronic clock radio that I bought in 1978 and it still works just fine. I have a transistor radio I got as a kid in the 60’s It works fine too. Indeed, I also have a radio that my father used to listen to Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadacast in 1938, and it works OK too (original tubes and all). Of course there’s Voyagers 1 and 2 which are pushing 30 – and have even been remotely reprogrammed more than once.