Ferrari Mailing List: Re: old times flying in their warbirds

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WIRED had an interesting read a month or so ago about the 3 W's (What
Went Wong) of the lunar guidance computer.  Turned out it was operator
error - Aldrin had a switch that hooked up a radar to the computer
turned the wrong way, overloading it with info.  For the return
reunion with the command module they turned it back to the correct
position.  But it was panic and mayhem until they figured out what was
happening.

5600 discreet NOR gates manufactured by Fairchild made up the computer.

Hans.

On 8/21/19, Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> The average age of the engineers on Apollo was 26...
>

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Re: old times flying in their warbirds	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Hans E. Hansen (FListhanshansen.org)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:24:05 -0700 (PDT)