Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer [video]
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Re: Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer [video]
#2super cool video, check it out
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#3super cool video, check it out
Please also check curious marc youtube channel where you will find almost all of mentioned adventures!
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#4So cool I'm going to have to go play with the PDP-11/15 in my basement to get my old hardware jones on.
This video of building a custom Apollo electroluminescent glass panel DSKY display is also fantastic! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2o_Sp2-aBo
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#7So cool I'm going to have to go play with the PDP-11/15 in my basement to get my old hardware jones on. This video of building a custom Apollo electroluminescent glass panel DSKY display is also fantastic! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2o_Sp2-aBo
Yeah, a lot of vintage stuff hitting the HN front page lately. I'm loving that.
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#8Oh look, it's the best thing I've ever watched on youtube.
Okay, that might be slight hyperbole, but it's solidly in my top ten. One of those where the video documentation has no flourish, and as such doesn't get in the way of how cool the actual project is.
Excellent series. If anyone knows of anything even remotely similar, please send it my way.
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#9I highly recommend the book, Sunburst and Luminary;
http://www.sunburstandluminary.com/SLhome.html
A technical pleasure and also very good glimpse into the Apollo team - working together, to land on the moon. It is a fun easy read, written by the fellow in charge of programming computer on the lunar lander. It is also a great snapshot of that time in history, the excitement of Apollo, and with the frustration of the Vietnam war going on, some protests, etc. Just a hint - the main programmer, was an English major, and his use of the right words, were a key factor in the success of of creating an efficient and effective computer language.