OT: Apollo Core Rope Memory

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 12:30:36PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On 11/1/23 04:21, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > If anyone is interested in hardware and software used on the Apollo
> > missions to the moon, checkout this video:
> > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hckwxq8rnr0>.
> > 
> > It is fascinating how the folks are recovering the original programs
> > for the flight computers. (Many of the programs have been lost to
> > history).
> > 
> > Jeff
> 
> I have read several times that the microprocessor used there was the 
> original RCA 1802 because as a cmos design, it was automatically rad hard.
> 
I spent several years (1980 to 1987) programming 1802 based SCADA
systems for the oil company in Oman (PDO).  I even write an 1802 
macro assembler in 1802 machine code to improve on the RCA supplied
software.

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Chris Green