2 Dec
2001
2 Dec
'01
12:20 a.m.
CLeyson(a)aol.com wrote:
Found a java applet that simulates the DSKY (display
and keyboard)
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Cockpit/1556/dsky.html
As MIT designed the AGC's I bet they have all of the documentation
filed away somewhere. Found some interesting documents at
http://hrst.mit.edu/hrs/apollo/public/
1689.pdf - "Block II keyboard and dsiplay program (RETRED44)"
Gives a Block II verb/noun list
1692.pdf - "AGC4 Memo #9 Block II Instructions"
Block II Memory map and instruction set
Sourceforge as a semiactive project to write a simulator don't know if
the code cited above is pert of that or a different project.
Ther eis also a book about the computers used int he Apollo era. From a
previous (26 Sep 2001) post in cccmp by John Allan:
re Eldon Hall's book "Journey to the
Moon"
BTW It is expensive but worth
it, even if you like Only computers or only spaceflight. (but both?
<g><g>)
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics
Date: 1996
ISBN: 1-56347-185-X
URLS:
http://www.aiaa.org/store/storeproductdetail.cfm?ID=358
available from Amazon but url is too long to post ;-)
-- hbp