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The doco was about the Apollo missions, that was enough for me to watch.
Sure todays laptops and computers and mobile phones are great. But not many would understand them to a level were the could tell you every little detail about them. For example where the resolved the 1202 problem, did you see that sheet. Every possible problem had been documented. A simple error in MS windows is fobbed off with oh that normal just click ok and ignore it. Memory management is so crap in modern OS's.
Or for example during Apollo 13 the power-up procedures (accredited to Mattingly in the film). Such engineers have to know there systems inside out. I had a professor who told us about the days when they had to repair there calculators, yet we live in the days were we can almost dispose such things and replace them cheaply. Working in IT i have come accros the situation time and again were i have no choice but to format and start from scratch, because there is not enough information about the problem to fix it. Partly this is because not every combination of things can be tested for by every vendor. But this is exactly what the engineers at NASA did do, they new those "real-time" systems inside out.
Regards
Fahim
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