Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer & live Apollo DSKY screen demo
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- čas přidán 3. 11. 2023
- Marc Verdiell, Eric Schlaepfer, Ken Shirriff
A presentation at Vintage Computer Festival West - August 4 2023 Please consider the creation and preservation of presentations like this one by donating to Vintage Computer Federation, which is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. vcfed.org/donate/ - Věda a technologie
I cannot get enough of Marc talking about the AGC.
Well then, come to VCF East! He will be coming there and talking about it in person! April 14, 2024! vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/
I swear to you, that was Eric's "magic finger" getting Marc's computer reconnected to the projector again ☝
LOL! so funny!
These folks are genius! So much work to resurrect all of this. Thinks of all the work done in the 1960s to make this happen.
Yes. These guys are truly amazing!
Anytime I hear somebody say that "we no longer have the knowledge or technology to land on the moon," I point them to Marc and his team.
He is a very smart guy!
This team of humans are amazing. Best show on the internet.
Yeah! Very interesting and smart people!
Interesting to learn that the 1202 could block up the AGC completely. I think I read it in Frank O'Brien's book that if the 1202s came closer than they did on XI the AGC would've _lost_ the navigation data and they would have had to abort.
Soo... anybody have a spare rendezvous radar to try? :)
Yeah. Kinda scary!
The 1202 means the machine is restarting from a saved state and on paper it won't lose anything.
As Mike explained it in the series it was not the radar but the CDU box that failed. Turning off the rendezvous radar was only a workaround for the rest of the mission.
As far as I understand Mike he still has no satisfactory answer how the AGC kept working as the 1202 alarm came up. He said there were a higher possibility to crash than to land. I'm still waiting for an update on that topic.