Space station computer crash corrected


	Space station computer crash corrected

ericskiff

6-17-2007 2:48 PM

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ericskiff says:

Glad to see they were able to get the computers back up and running.

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6-18-2007 10:02 PM

skwirlinator

They were running vista?

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