Bill, I have an Apollo here with an 8" drive and I'm hunting for an 8" Domain media set so I can reinstall the OS. If you get them to me I can image them and send images to Al.
- Ian On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 7:44 AM, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On Jan 23, 2018, at 9:33 AM, jim stephens via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > The real work was done in the back rooms @ Mission control, with certain > features implemented on the systems onboard the rocket. > > > > You couldn't carry out a mission w/o the ground supporting either system > with computations to the onboard systems. You didn't punch in the address > of the moon on any system onboard the rocket, you got pre-computed > parameters from ground computations that the flight computers carried out. > > That’s exactly what I was trying to point out. What we have is a > relatively small piece of the entire puzzle. People seem to think that just > because a few versions of CM and LM software exist all is saved and done, > but it’s really only the user interface to a much larger stack. You can't > just fire up the AGC and push the “land on the moon” button. You can run it > by itself and look at the idle loop or display the clock but getting it to > actually DO anything close to its original tasks requires input from a lot > of missing pieces. We aren’t trying to just run it in a box, that’s been > done. We’re making it FLY. > > > I'm not getting your "absolutely wrong" part. > > He said "The Saturn IBM firmware is lost, but was under command of the LM > and CM computers”. This is absolutely wrong. It was the other way around. > > > -- Ian Finder (206) 395-MIPS ian.fin...@gmail.com