NASA needed a small and lightweight computer to send humans on their journey to the Moon and back, but computers of the day were made out of discrete components that were heavy, large, complicated, ...

(CBS) - Imagine the moment as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were descending toward the moon, a few minutes away from landing in the Sea of Tranquility. Civilization's most historic event was within ...

One of our favorite retro hardware enthusiasts, [CuriousMarc], is back with the outstanding tale of preserving Apollo Program software, and building a core rope reader from scratch to do it. We’ve ...

[..] but I'm pretty sure there are unresolved jumps when it loads, which get changed to sane values by some of the earliest code that runs after launch. [..] Click to expand... Almost all code does ...

As part of its tribute to Apollo 11, Google is using moonlight to dramatically showcase Margaret Hamilton, a pioneer whose computational work helped make the historic mission possible. The Mountain ...

Fifty years ago, American astronauts walked the moon, completing an incredible mission that, if we're honest, was extremely unlikely to happen as soon as it did. And it was all possible because of ...

Some people climb mountains to achieve greatness. Some people try to win championship sports games. John Pultorak built a working replica of a 40-year-old computer. Late last year, Pultorak of ...

Less than three years after graduating from UMass Lowell with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Walter Dawson ’59 spotted a Boston Globe ad seeking engineers to work on NASA’s Apollo ...

The Apollo 14 moon landing was made possible by last-minute reprogramming of the lunar module's computers. The onboard computers were able to take advantage of integrated circuits. The computer I used ...

Cool stuff: A British startup has developed a watch geared at NASA super geeks (you know who you are). The timepiece takes the concept of the calculator watch, which was highly popular in the 1980s, ...

Apollo Instruments wristwatch made to resemble Apollo Guidance Computer. © Mark Clayton/Apollo Instruments Surely you’ve heard that your smartphone has more ...

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