Moon Machines

POSTED BY: cljohnston108
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 13:43
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This astonishing 6-part documentary series from 2008 is being re-run on the Science Channel, and it's just mind-blowing!
All the nitty-gritty technical detail they'd never put in a mainstream space docu!

From Part 3: The Navigation Computer

I'd never heard of anything like Rope Memory: You don't wanna get distracted putting that stuff together! Not a lot of chit-chat amongst the assembly line, I'd wager.

Amazing what passed for computers back in ancient times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory

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