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How the Apollo Computers were made

submitted by Quadrophonic
1 decade 7 months ago

YT description:

"A mid 60s American documentary illustrating the design, build and use of the Apollo Guidance Computer. From the Spacecraft Films DVD "Mission To The Moon" which contains 10 rare documentaries. Well worth the money."

14 Comments

*quality For my father was an employee of NASA during this time. Thanks a lot for finding this.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by lurgee.

*doublepromote

Double-Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, September 27th, 2013 10:39am PDT - doublepromote requested by kulpims.

jokingly says...

I can't wait for it to get to the interesting part.

And now the little boxes that create the test patterns for quality control testing for flat screen TVs at Samsung have far greater computing power.

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Is he still alive to (re?)watch this? Those old school numbers are sweet.

*quality For my father was an employee of NASA during this time. Thanks a lot for finding this.

This is wonderful stuff. I love the presentation too. Long steady shots of the subject, with a steady stream of information and no fluff. No rapid fire editing. No stupid music. No cutting away to a talking head who will preview/sum-up the video every 60 seconds.

John Fitch of MIT, you're too frikkin' suave᾿ (⌐■_■)
...Albert Hopkins though (10:00), that's the cat you wanna take to the party‼

jokingly says...

Guy at 9:52 appears to be Steve Buscemi's long lost uncle

...and he's so frikkin' stoked about Apollo he's got a 24/7 NASA boner-That'd be Albert Hopkins, senior systems engineer and panty-disolver

Guy at 9:52 appears to be Steve Buscemi's long lost uncle

I said 'Wow!' no less than 3 times while watching this.

*doublepromote this is beyond awesome

Double-Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, September 27th, 2013 10:39am PDT - doublepromote requested by deathcow.

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