18 Sep
2018
18 Sep
'18
8:44 p.m.
Cory said
Liam, thanks for posting this. What a wonderful way to
waste an hour. ; )
I can also highly recommend the book 'Digital Apollo', which goes into some
detail about the man-machine interface of the AGC and the internal debate at the time of
the role of man as "spacecraft pilot". -C
On Sep 18, 2018, at 12:28 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> Amazingly detailed 1hr talk about the Apollo Guidance Computer. It's
> stunning how much they got into mid-1960s technology: 1 MHz hand-made
> processor, 1 k of RAM, 4 k of ROM, and bank-switching, with a
> fault-tolerant multitasking OS with an interpreted metalanguage.
> Absolutely stunning.
>
> https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9064-the_ultimate_apollo_guidance_computer_talk
Haven't watched this video yet but am keen to do so as "ultimate" is a bold
claim to make.
For my birthday recently I received 'SUNBURST AND LUMINARY: an Apollo Memoir' by
Don Eyles.
http://www.sunburstandluminary.com/SLhome.html
I've only read a few chapters so far but it is a fascinating new (2018) account of how
the AGC
software came about, and his part in it such as writing the P63 and P64 programs for the
powered
descent to the lunar surface.
I've not got the Digital Apollo nor any other books on the AGC but if I had my
druthers I would
wish to get the one by Eldon Hall, however it is a rather unusually expensive paperback so
that
will have to wait.
Steve.