22 Jul
2009
22 Jul
'09
7:18 p.m.
40 yrs of Lunar Lander - the other anniversary
http://technologizer.com/2009/07/19/lunar-lander/
?Lexington High School had a PDP-8,? Storer recalls. ?It had 8
Teletypes, a small hard drive, and 12KB of main memory, where 8KB was
used by the system and 4KB time shared by the users.? Storer wrote his
new program, ?Lunar Landing Game,? in FOCAL, a programming language for
the PDP-8 that was similar in some ways to BASIC (both were introductory
languages known for their ease of use). His simulation was simple, yet
powerful: underneath lay a realistic set of equations Storer believes
his father may have taught him.
=Dan
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