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Showing posts with label Apollo. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Apollo. Show all posts

Reliable after 50 years: The Apollo Guidance Computer's switching power supplies

We recently restored an Apollo Guidance Computer, the revolutionary computer that helped navigate to the Moon and land on its surface. 1 At...

Apollo Guidance Computer: Dipstiks and reverse engineering the core rope simulator

Onboard the Apollo spacecraft, the revolutionary Apollo Guidance Computer helped navigate to the Moon and land on its surface. The AGC'...

Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash

We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer 1 . Now that we have the world's only working AGC, I decided to write some code for...

Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer

Onboard the Apollo spacecraft, the revolutionary Apollo Guidance Computer helped navigate to the Moon and land on its surface. One of the f...

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