Liam, thanks for posting this. What a wonderful way to waste an hour. ; ) I can also highly recommend the book 'Digital Apollo', which goes into some detail about the man-machine interface of the AGC and the internal debate at the time of the role of man as "spacecraft pilot". -C
On Sep 18, 2018, at 12:28 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > Amazingly detailed 1hr talk about the Apollo Guidance Computer. It's > stunning how much they got into mid-1960s technology: 1 MHz hand-made > processor, 1 k of RAM, 4 k of ROM, and bank-switching, with a > fault-tolerant multitasking OS with an interpreted metalanguage. > Absolutely stunning. > > https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9064-the_ultimate_apollo_guidance_computer_talk > > -- > Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven > UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053