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Anyone who is looking for something to run it on could take a look at Block I Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC): How to build one in your basement [1]. The build t
by andyjohnson0 13y ago
Anyone who is looking for something to run it on could take a look at Block I Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC): How to build one in your basement [1]. The build took one guy four years and a lot of wire-wrap. A fascinating and quite awe-inspiring piece of work.
[1] http://klabs.org/history/build_agc/ http://klabs.org/history/build_agc/
- el_duderino 13y agoWow. I have no idea what I just read, but it....it was awesome.
- rip747 13y agothat guy deserves a medal. 4 years of work and documentation and he gives it to the world. the documentation is pretty good with some incredible pictures and diagrams. now granted i'm not an electrical engineer so i don't know if it is accurate.
- Lambdanaut 13y agoHaha... That's pretty amazing... How about an emulator?
- jccooper 13y agoSure: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ Or, if you want a web-based version (via asm.js): http://svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html http://svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html (I knew about the Burkey version, but the JS port I just found. Ain't the modern world amazing?)