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Showing posts with label space. Show all posts

"Space age electronics": Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s

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In the early 1960s, General Electric developed a technology called thin-film electronics. 1 These circuits were built from thin films of ...
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Inside a transistorized shift register box, built in 1965 for Apollo testing

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One of the under-appreciated aspects of the Apollo launches to the Moon is how much testing was required. I recently came across an item t...
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A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained

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In the Apollo Moon missions, the Saturn V rocket was guided by an advanced onboard computer system built by IBM. This system was built fro...
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