"Turning it off and turning it on again works"

So - just like Windows, then?

old computers = reliable and robust. simplicity is one of the most cherished virtue in engineering. nasa don't launch '"peace" of garbage' on earth orbit. if ten year old cpu can do the job, use it! hubble telescope ain't running 3d games up there.
"mod here and there"? you make a fool out of yourself boy! so if this project was up to a clueless fanboy geek like you, you'd launch hubble with i7 cpu huh? one hardware error/bug, millions of dollars worth of taxpayer money lost in space.

Why are they bothering wasting man hours trying to figure out what went wrong? Surely everyone expects that it might have been ET "borrowing" the computer for a short period to work out some intergalactic travel coordinate, or maybe to get some free airtime for ET to phone home?

"but they seem to have forgotten that computers in the 1990s didn't have to have any explanations for playing up with such antics." Um, yes they did, I was working on computers then, the usual error messages went something similar to this "error, missing keyboard, press F1 to continue."

they were that lazy, of corse they wouldn't bother upgrading the peace of garbage or a mod here and there, befor spending a fortune to send the outdated part up there.all that math and learnin' aint' don nothin' for thum'!

nah... ithink that just too much radiation, hubble is in space...
glitch or something lile that is common despite that's old computer after all

without a reboot finger is just a mad decision.