6 May
2000
6 May
'00
10:03 a.m.
Hmm...
While everyone is mentioning all these musuems that feature things like an
Apollo capsule, etc. I had to >wonder if there are any musuems which
contain an Agena >space vehicle (could be misspelled) or some kind of
Well, I know that Space Center Houston/JSC in Houston has a mock-up (not
quite life size) of Skylab. A bit of trivia: the Skylab itself was really
nothing more than a Saturn 5 Third Stage that had been fitted with all the
equipment.
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Skylab mock-up. I'm asking because my dad
wrote some of >the programs
which ran Skylab, and he helped design the >Agena
space vehicle, back in
the late 60's when he >worked for Lockheed Missiles and then Martin
Marietta. >He used a CDC-3400 at Lockheed and a CDC-6500 (I >believe, 6000
series at any rate) at Martin... When I >first got interested in old
computers I heard more than >a few stories about SCOPE and COMPASS, and
SNOBOL, >though he used SNOBOL in 1970 at Tymshare on the SDS 940 >and
later on the XDS Sigma 7. He also did COMPASS >programming on CSU's
CDC-6600 in 1972, which they used >to teach assembly language programming.
For all the >DECheads on the list, he also worked on Tymshare's
DECsystem-10's and 20's when they were
brand-new; they >were what
replaced the SDS 940.
Will J