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Showing posts with label space. Show all posts

The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962

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What would you say is the first microcomputer? 1 The Apple I from 1976? The Altair 8800 from 1974? Perhaps the lesser-known Micral N (1973...
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Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

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One of the most interesting navigation instruments onboard Soyuz spacecraft was the Globus INK, 1 which used a rotating globe to indicate...
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Reverse-engineering the electronics in the Globus analog navigational computer

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In the Soyuz space missions, cosmonauts tracked their position above the Earth with a remarkable electromechanical device with a rotating ...
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