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ttepasse
on Feb 8, 2017
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The web sucks if you have a slow connection
I remember astronaut Alex Gertz somewhere saying the VNC was also for security reasons. Keep in mind that most infrastructure on the ISS was installed in the middle 00s and that the Thinkpads were possible running Windows XP and IE 6 then.
milesrout
on Feb 9, 2017
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I certainly bloody hope they're not running Microsoft software on the International Space Station.
eggsome
on Feb 11, 2017
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They were in 2001:
https://m.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/27/nt_4_0_sp7_available/
This is one of my favorite NT4 tidbits :)
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