28 Apr
1999
28 Apr
'99
4:16 p.m.
I was watching the show on the history of computers on the Discovery channel
and they talked about the computer on the Lunar Module that landed on the
moon. It had 5000 integrated circuits in it and was quite the marvel for
its time. Could this be a candidate for the first Personal Computer? They
were kinda pricey! ;-)
Does anybody have any information on that cpu - word size, instruction set,
memory, control panel, etc? Who manuafactured it? Where can one go and see
it (without going to the moon!) How about the software for it?
An simulator for one would be pretty cool to see, especially if it was
running the program that they used to land on the moon!