Houston has a problem: got any 1981 Intel chips?

NASA needs parts no one makes any more. So to keep the shuttles flying, the space agency has begun trolling the Internet — including Yahoo and eBay — to find replacement parts for electronic gear that would strike a home computer user as primitive. Officials say the agency recently bought a load of outdated medical equipment so it could scavenge Intel 8086 chips — a variant of those chips powered IBM’s first personal computer, in 1981