1 Dec
2001
1 Dec
'01
10:02 a.m.
Geoff Roberts wrote:
The one in the command module. I suspect bits and pieces have survived
as part of the apollo museum pieces. There is a good bit of information
on the web about this machine because of the Apollo 1 electrical fire.
The movie Apollo 13 has a nice mock up of it.
What about the PDP-1 and vector display ... the first real video game!
PS. As a reminder http://members.aol.com/swtpc6800/FDC2/FDC_Index.htm
is a new floppy disc controller for the Southwest Technical Products
Corp.
6800 and 6809 computers.
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Ben Franchuk --- Pre-historic Cpu's --
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
13) 1968/9
The Apollo guidance computer - Helped get man to the moon.
Are we talking about the ones on the ground or the ones in the spacecraft?
If the spacecraft, was the one in the LEM the same machine? Anyone got any
info on it? Any examples survive?