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R.I.P. John Conway
Rf-ResQ at a tradeshow
The Rf-ResQ was one of my projects at SimWave. It’s an eight channel filter/combiner for use with wireless microphones.
Restoration of an original Apollo Guidance Computer
https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Restoration.html
The AGC was one of the first major uses of integrated circuits.
The Apollo 11 lunar lander software is on GitHub
https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
Some of the routine names and comments are funny, as are some of the issues people are raising.
Some background info:
Don Eyles Walks Us Through the Lunar Module Source Code
BBC’s 13 Minutes to the Moon
This great podcast goes into considerable detail about the development of the hardware and software for the onboard computers used in the Apollo program.
The development process was a bit different in the mainframe days, when you didn’t get to run things from your terminal and get immediate feedback. One interesting bit is that the keypunch operators acted as a sort of syntax checker. You don’t need to really understand code to spot an unclosed parenthesis.
Why yes, I have been watching HBO’s new miniseries ‘Chernobyl’
And I live close to a nuclear power plant.
The Life of a Bolt
R.I.P. Stephen Hawking
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