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Title: Build an Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
Post by: CMC Airboss on January 12, 2005, 06:24:14 PM

I ran across this site which has all of the information needed to build a replica of the Apollo Guidance Computer that helped take man to the moon.  This is the first computer to use IC's (integrated circuits) and was designed at MIT in 1964.  Very interesting read and the site contains links to the plans!

http://starfish.osfn.org/AGCreplica/

MiG

Title: Build an Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
Post by: spitfiremkv on January 12, 2005, 09:17:48 PM

wow. I can't believe it isn't classified. After all, it can guide a mannedspacecraft to...the Moon.

not even NASA can get there with a manned spacecraft(nowadays...

bold=added after edit. I'm a post potato, and sometimes I'm in such a rush to post more and more that I don't proof-read before I submit

Title: Build an Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
Post by: Holden McGroin on January 12, 2005, 09:40:50 PM

At 9:28 p.m. (EST) on January 6, 1998, Lunar Prospector (LP) blasted off to the Moon aboard a Lockheed Martin solid-fuel, three-stage rocket called Athena II. It was successfully on its way to the Moon for a one-year, polar orbit, primary mission dedicated to globally mapping lunar resources, gravity, and magnetic fields, and even outgassing events.

Title: Build an Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
Post by: spitfiremkv on January 12, 2005, 11:20:56 PM

and how many crew members was it carying?

sorry I should have said manned spacecraft, that's what I meant

Title: Build an Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
Post by: NUKE on January 12, 2005, 11:22:21 PM

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Originally posted by spitfiremkv
and how many crew members was it carying?

sorry I should have said manned spacecraft, that's what I meant

lol, you said that you could guide a spacecraft to the moon, and not even Nasa could do that. What did you mean by that?

Title: Build an Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
Post by: Holden McGroin on January 13, 2005, 12:09:39 AM

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Originally posted by spitfiremkv
and how many crew members was it carying?

sorry I should have said manned spacecraft, that's what I meant

So... fully robotic spaceprobes need less computing power?