Margaret Hamilton Guardian interview.

Curious Marc curiousmarc3 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 15 10:58:23 CDT 2019


Good eye. It’s an HP 2116B. In the queue for restoration. We were starting to work on it, then the AGC opportunity came along...
Marc

> On Jul 13, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> At 01:48 PM 13/07/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>> Another of the un-acknowledged people in the upcoming July 29
>> 'celebrations'.
>> 
>> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/13/margaret-hamilton-computer-scientist-interview-software-apollo-missions-1969-moon-landing-nasa-women
>> 
>> --lyndon
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> 
> Highly related:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhVKYDVZxWQ
> Apollo AGC Part 19: Restoration complete!
> Published on Jul 12, 2019
> IWe finally are able to make the original erasable core memory work, under the watchful eye of guests more famous than us. This completes the restoration of the AGC. In the process we dump the historical content that was still present in the memory module and find all kinds of interesting things.
> 
> 
> 
> Also, at 17:26 is that a HP 2116A in the background? Tall gray rackmount unit. First minicomputer HP made.
> 
> Guy


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