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[i]So this computer alarm happened, and Bales said, "What is it?" So we looked down at the list at that alarm, and, yes, right, and if it doesn't reoccur too often, we're fine, because it's doing the restarts and flushing. It can't happen, but because Kranz had told us to, we said, "All right. Theoretically, if it ever did get into overload, what's going to happen?" Well, the computer's going to have one of these alarms. It will clean the system of all the tasks that it needs to do out so any that are in there twice because of the overlap will be reduced to none, and then when it restarts, it'll only put one of them back. Right? So it's self-cleaning, self-healing, as long as it doesn't continually happen. Right? Well, there's a two-second delay, just for starters, okay, you know, the speed of light. So obviously it's not recurring so often that the vehicle's going unstable. So I said, on this back-room voice loop that no one can hear, I'm saying to Steve, "As long as it doesn't reoccur, it's fine." Bales is looking at the rest of the data. The vehicle's not turning over. You couldn't see anything else going wrong. The computer's recovering just fine. Instead of calculating once a second, every once in a while it's calculating every second and a half, because it flushes and has to do it again. So it's a little slower, but no problem. It's working fine. So it's not reoccurring too often, everything's stable, and he does his famous, "We're go, flight," or whatever it was. When it occurred again a few minutes later, a different alarm but it was the same type — I forget which one came first — I remember distinctly yelling — by this time yelling, you know, in the loop here — "Same type!" and he yells, "Same type!" I could hear my voice echoing. Then the Cap Com says, "Same type!" [Laughter] Boom, boom, boom, going up. It was pretty funny.[/i]
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