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Topic: A MIT-Instrumentation-Lab programmer's vision of 1201, 1202
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music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 12-15-2007 01:05 PM
   
I came across this paper from Don Eyles, MIT Instrumentation Lab programmer in the 1960's. He discusses misconceptions and realities about the LGC's conception and applications.You can read it on his own site, or at NASA's Office of Logic Design. |
Obviousman
Member Posts: 438
From: NSW, Australia
Registered: May 2005
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posted 12-15-2007 05:58 PM
It's a great read - thank you for that! |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1532
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 12-15-2007 06:34 PM
Outstanding find music_space!!! I've got to share this with my co-workers! |
compass
Member Posts: 42
From: uk
Registered: May 2007
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posted 12-16-2007 04:44 PM
GREAT find... one thing that always amazes me is how they (Apollo crews) managed with the mix of US and metric measurement. The LGC converting metric to feet per second etc, as if it had not already enough to do. Weights and measures were in pounds and feet here and there, in the lunar surface journal one listens to astronauts talking in metres and centimetres... ie craters so many metres north of the LM, Cernan 'the engine bell never touched the surface, it's about 15 centimeters off the ground' One wonders why they never decided upon one system and stuck to it. |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 12-16-2007 10:47 PM
Great system, metric... It has become official here in Canada when I was 11, yet I still use both system confusingly, and so it is with younger fellows...Hard habits die hard... |
Captain Apollo
Member Posts: 260
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 06-13-2008 04:08 PM
Was military metric by the 60s? |
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