18 Sep
2018
18 Sep
'18
6:29 p.m.
On 09/18/2018 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
Well, this was one of the VERY first computers built with
monolithic integrated circuits.
NASA sure assigned a TOUGH task to the designers!
Another one was the Honeywell Alert, designed for the X-15
project.
Jon