Apollo Guidance Computer

[steve stutman]

I think a lot of this was done at Draper Lab, part of MIT then.

One person who worked on the code you are interested in was Richard Warren.

Steve



Dan wrote:
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>
> Randy Dawson wrote:
>> There is the ocasional homebuilt, TTL CPU thread on here.  I wanted 
>> to make known this guy, John Plutorak, who reproduced the guidance 
>> computer in his basement:
>>
>> http://klabs.org/history/build_agc/
>>
>> Awsome project, take a look.  I intend to build one too...
>>   
> I've seen this before and it's very interesting.
>
> Here's a piece of trivia I picked up while researching material for my 
> last project at VCF east about Floating Point Math. I talked with 
> Frank O'Brian, the caretaker of the Apollo Guidance Computer exhibit 
> at InfoAge in NJ about this subject. He provided this tidbit of info 
> that I thought I could share here. While looking at the original code 
> listings for this computer, (at the exhibit) it's quite amazing how 
> they accomplished all this math within such a constrained environment 
> given the technology of it's day. I feel this would make some people 
> scratch their heads :)
>
> What type of arithmetic operations were used to perform all the 
> calculations on the Apollo Guidance Computer ?
> a) Floating Point arithmetic operations
> b) Fixed Point Arithmetic operations
> c) Integer Arithmetic operations
> d) Slide Rule Arithmetic operations
> e) all of the above
>
>
>
> =Dan
>
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