The Apollo induction computer, developed at the MIT Institute of Instrumental Engineering (now Charles Stark Draper Research Institute) in the 1960s, played an important role in the Apollo project, ...
Some people change the world with technology. Some people use technology to change the world. And some people find ways to mine Bitcoin on really, really, really old computers. Ancient Computer ...
Everyone knows Apollo is just awesomely cool, right? Not the Greek god, even though he is the god of archery, but NASA's moon landing missions of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It's so cool that one ...
The computer that guided man to the moon half a century ago was bulkier and far less powerful than the smartphone you’re sending snaps on today. But the Apollo Guidance Computer was a groundbreaking ...
The first moon landing is still considered one of mankind's greatest achievements nearly half a century after Neil Armstrong took his first step off the Apollo 11 spacecraft. But it is perhaps even ...
There are hundreds if not thousands of artifacts from the Apollo program scattered around the globe, some twisted wrecks at the bottom of the ocean, others lovingly preserved and sitting in museums or ...
ATHERTON, Calif.—There are times it feels easier to fly to the moon than from Houston to San Francisco. Jimmie Loocke, 72, transporting one of the world’s rarest computers—the electronic brain from an ...
Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the ship's computer became overloaded. Few were more nervous ...
It’s hard to say what exactly it is about the Apollo DSKY that captures so many hackers’ imaginations. Whatever it is, the “Display and Keyboard” unit from the Apollo Guidance Computer has inspired ...
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