Apollo Mission Guidance Computer.....

[Sleepy Wombat]

Found this artical which give interesting insite into the programming and design of the computer guidance systems for Apollo missions. See attached pdf... If you would like to make one... heres a link to the schematics... http://klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/index.htm agc_scott_apollo_guidance_computer.pdf

[Ken Moore]

Going to the moon are we? Have a nice trip. Nice find, it's really interesting to see what those guys accomplished with so little previous experience.

[Sleepy Wombat]

I just found the artical facinating as to the inner workings of the devlopment of the project.. What an engineering dream job...

[Sleepy Wombat]

BTW Ken.. here is a link to a free sim for space flight in case your interested.. http://www.acsoft.ch/AMSO/amso.html

[Peter Nachtwey]

Those engineers were REAL engineers. They modelled and simulated what they could the best they could and left as little as possible to chance. My hat is off to them. Real engineering doesn't happen in industry often.

[Keith Menges]

That's because cost/benefit analysis says it doesn't have to. The cost of failure in general industry isn't high enough. In my daily job I don't have the lives of three men, the GNP of half the world and the hopes and dreams of a nation riding on my decisions. If I did I would be doing much more true engineering. The cost of failure for these people was extremely high and they didn't have any previous experience to lean on. It was a truly incredible endeavor. I wonder how many people had to bow out because the pressure just got to be too much. Keith