The machine that made the moon missions possible

mpainesyd · July 13, 2019, 10:06pm

Japan Today has an excellent article on the Apollo mission computers:

scifionea · July 14, 2019, 2:34am

Cool. The BBC has a multipart podcast called “13 Minutes to the Moon” which I have been listening too - sort of a history of the whole process to the first moon landing. It is a little slow but quite good. They have mentioned the computer but have not gotten that far yet.

minus.van.baalen · July 16, 2019, 10:45am

There is a very interesting documentary on the Apollo Guidance Computer available on Youtube, put there by Joshua Bonini: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9YA7X5we8ng

MMTalker · July 16, 2019, 5:57pm

Thanks for this wonderful link!

mpainesyd · July 22, 2019, 7:30am

Another Youtube - apparently booting up an original Apollo computer!

scifionea · July 22, 2019, 2:25pm

Magnetic core memory with the operating system hardwired in during construction. (episode 5 of the podcast “13 Minutes to the Moon”) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory

MMTalker · July 22, 2019, 5:32pm

And thanks for this one too!