Apollo Guidance computer programmed...

[zeitghost]

http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-mi...-guidance.html

I am fascinated to see this information on the AGC. I coded on it as part of a team from Raytheon that was under the direction of Margaret Hamilton. When I tell young programmers and developers the challenges on writing programs with little writeable memory they are quite astounded. Having to tuck integers into instruction registers in order to save space...

I recall was a Jacquard Loom in the Lab where the memory ropes were woven.

A great reminisence, that I'm delighted you're capturing.

Jacquard Loom... punched cards to weave your rope memory...

[AlfredJPruffock]

Does anybody believe still that the Moon landings were faked ?

And do you then think that NASA faked the Apollo 13 mission ?

And the Soviets would not have noticed the faked Moon landings ??

Oh and the moon rocks brought back by the Soviets and NASA - are remarkbly similar ?

Coincidence ?

I think not ...

[HairyArsedBloke]

I watched the 'Moon Machines' series over the weekend (Torrent was my friend. I'd put a link to Pirate Bay, but I'm not sure if I'd get into trouble).

Ep.3 is about the guidance computer and shows pictures rope memory, little old ladies and all about 1202's etc.

There is no way that I would ever go in one of those craft. It's amazing that the death toll was a low as it was.

[Cliphead]

This is fun

Orbiter

Especially when you add this

NASSP or this AMSO

[TimberWolf]

They don't make games like this any more.

[zeitghost]

They don't make games like this any more.

Somewhere or other, I have that game on a cassette for the Commodore PET...

[TimberWolf]

Somewhere or other, I have that game on a cassette for the Commodore PET...

The trick is not to use rocket boost until the last moment, just maximum boost right at the end. This is also the most efficient way to escape a gravitational well, but at the start.