Apollo Guidance System Restoration

[stricklybojack]

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This stuff is pretty far over my head and probably many here, nonetheless the spirit is right in
line with AW. I found the video very enjoyable.

Oddly, Ken, who quipped about “shorts and opens should cancel each other out”, just posted about a Heath Kit trash compactor...or maybe not so oddly, he is Canadian, and someone I knew long ago.

If you’re into electronics, restorations, and or “geeking out”, follow Ken’s blog (below) or on Twitter.
Full write up of work here:[this post was last edited: 7/14/2019-12:40]

http://www.righto.com/2019/07/apollo-guidance-computer-dipstiks-and.html

 

[tolivac]

I found the video fascinating as well-the problems solved by a couple of "caps"!That "primitive" data storage was very interesting.Its a far cry from what we use today!!!Your smartphone has far more power than the guidance system used in Apollo.My father worked on the systems-not clear what he did-He used to work for North American Rockwell and Honeywell in the glorious 60's --The electronics back then were very interesting to me even though I was in Jr high school.Took to today to understand the workings of these things.

 

[stricklybojack]

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Here is a newspaper article on the effort:

https://padailypost.com/2019/07/15/...-computer-get-it-to-run-moon-landing-program/

 

[stricklybojack]

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Wow, the Wall Street Journal picked up the story.
The video is very good and oddly not in anyway redundant to the previous stuff I have linked.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-apo...ife-11563152761?mod=ig_moonlandinganniversary