You no doubt recall the incredible Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) reverse engineering and restoration project featured on the CuriousMarc YouTube channel a few years ago. Well, [Marc] and the team are ...
One of our favorite retro hardware enthusiasts, [CuriousMarc], is back with the outstanding tale of preserving Apollo Program software, and building a core rope reader from scratch to do it. We’ve ...
Programmer Forrest Heller recently published a chart comparing the Apollo Guidance Computer used during NASA's Apollo 11 mission with three modern USB-C devices, including an ordinary Google Pixel ...
Fly me to the Moon, and let me... charge... among the stars Fly me to the Moon, and let me... charge... among the stars is a reporter with five years of experience ...
I'll echo all the other comments here, amazing and yes, more please. As someone who spends a lot of time slinging code in "embedded" systems where "embedded" means ~1GB of RAM and a couple Ghz cores ...
The Apollo 14 moon landing was made possible by last-minute reprogramming of the lunar module's computers. The onboard computers were able to take advantage of integrated circuits. The computer I used ...