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

[Rick Moseley (ramosel]

Don't forget the wonderful CORE memory.  

> On Aug 22, 2019, at 9:24 AM, Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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