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> always remember that we got to the moon on them. Well, there were also 5 computers (one analog) onboard the spacecraft, multiple powerful IBM System/360 main
by kens 6y ago
> always remember that we got to the moon on them.
Well, there were also 5 computers (one analog) onboard the spacecraft, multiple powerful IBM System/360 mainframes computing trajectories on the ground, a Honeywell 1800 assembling code, a whole pile of Univac computers (1230, 494, 495) processing data, and RCA 110A computers for mission control (including one inside the launch platform under the rocket).
- sizzzzlerz 6y agoTrue, but my point was that the engineer's who designed the rockets and capsules and towers and just about everything else, including those computers, needed by the space program used their slide rules on a daily basis.