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Decoding Rediscovered Rope Memory From The Apollo Guidance Computer
Rope memory is weird ... [Fran Blanche] tore down a few modules from the Apollo Launch Vehicle Digital Computer a few years ago. Thanks to [Vincent], [Danie], and [Kent] for jumping on this ...
Hackaday1y
Saving Apollo By Decoding Core Rope
The time finally came to hand the now-working Apollo guidance computer back to its owner ... And if you are thinking of core memory based on ferrite cores, get ready for a brain stretch, as ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation4y
The Lunar Module Computer
The Apollo mission was conceived at the height ... that astronauts used to get onto the lunar surface. Each computer had two types of memory, erasable and fixed. The fixed memory contained the ...
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You can now wear an Apollo Guidance Computer keypad as a wristwatch
The compact devices were small, but had enough processing power and memory to guide ... the British startup Apollo Instruments has been able to shrink the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) even ...
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Apollo's Code: Meet the Computer Programmer Who Landed Us on the Moon
Few were more nervous than the young computer programmer who had written the code for the landing. On the Apollo 11's 50th anniversary, WSJ sat down with programmer Don Eyles. Photo: Alexander ...