[brucehoult]

I don't know what you've done but that information is not correct. Standard iPads and ThinkPad laptops are used on ISS. The problem on ISS is not ionising radiation but that in zero gravity cooling by convection does not work anywhere near as well as on Earth. Without forced air circulation they just sit in a bubble of hot air.

[jvanderbot]

I ran a bunch of code on standard servers lifted onto iss. Eventually we couldn't because the machines broke. I never said anything about radiation (but I was probably thinking that), just that this case refutes GPs claim that anywhere a human is safe, a computer is too.

I was wrong about ThinkPads, and I'm fine being wrong about that since ThinkPads are surprisingly robust.