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| | Apollo Computers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Apollo Computer, Inc., founded 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer), developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. | | | Apollo also invented the revision control system DSEE (Domain Software Engineering Environment) which was later to become Rational ClearCase. | | | Apollo's networking was particularly elegant, among the first to allow demand paging over the network, and allowing a degree of network transparency and low sysadmin-to-machine ratio that is still unmatched. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computers
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| | Clavius: Technology - computers |
| | Recall that the Apollo computer was not a general purpose computer. | | | These simple chips are not "computer chips" in the sense that they contain a computer on a single chip, but they are computer chips in that they can be used to build a computer. | | | In the real guidance computer the guidance program does none of that; the pilot flips a switch and the corresponding computer "bit" is set or cleared in the computer's memory by the switch electronics. |
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| | Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Amongst the computer's other error codes was the very first '404 error', albeit that error 00404 was shorthand for "IMU orientation unknown". | | | The computer's RAM was magnetic core memory (4K words) and ROM was implemented as core rope memory (32K words). | | | The Apollo flight computer was the first to use integrated circuits (ICs). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
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| | John R. "Jack" Garman, NASA MSC/JSC: Oral History Transcript |
| | The onboard computers, the ones in the spacecraft, I mean. | | | Moreover, the onboard computers in Apollo were guidance computers. | | | But that’s unheard of in onboard digital computers. |
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http://klabs.org/history/bios/garman/garman_oral_history.htm
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| | Footprints on the Moon - About the Apollo Computers |
| | Although the computer was slow, the operating system it used was well designed. | | | The computers that formed the basis of the Apollo Guidance and Navigation System (AGS) were at the bleeding edge of technology in the 1960s. | | | Because the computer had been programmed to recognize this data as being of secondary importance it would ignore it while doing more important computations. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/science/moon/computer.htm
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| | NASA and ICs (Henry Spencer; Paul Dietz) |
| | The computer in the Polaris missile came a bit earlier (and the Apollo computer evolved from the Polaris computer to some extent, both being done by the same MIT group). | | | My recollection is that the >Apollo flight computer was among the first digital computers in space, >as well as the first miniaturized computers... | | | An important one was the Minuteman II guidance computer, in 1962. |
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http://yarchive.net/space/politics/nasa_and_ICs.html
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| | Computers http |
| | The first personal computer with a graphical user interface, its development was central in the move to such systems for personal computers. | | | Apollo Computer and Sun Microsystems, another early entrant in the work station market, optimized their machines to run the computer-intensive graphics programs common in engineering. | | | Thi Truong developed the computer and Philippe Kahn the software. |
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http://www.tomax7.com/aplus/computers_timeline2.htm
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| | David Mandel's Comments on Prime Computers |
| | Apollo Computer went on to become a major computer company. | | | In this environment, the demise of Prime Computer wasn't shocking. | | | Still it is sad, because Prime Computer and it's sister company, Apollo Computer, had excellent operating systems which fit many users needs better than Unix or any OS from MicroSoft. |
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http://www.davidmandel.com/personal/prime.html
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| | Ch7-2 |
| | In regard to consolidating all functions in one computer, IBM thought that the difficulties of integrating the two RCA computers, the DDP-224 display computer, and the telemetry reduction computers were excessive. | | | Chapter 8 centers on the use of computers in checkout and the development of the Instrument Unit and its flight computer. | | | This was implemented on the Shuttle, as the mass memory units (MMUs) contain all preflight and flight software for the primary avionics computers, the display computers, and the engine control computers. |
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http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computers/Ch7-2.html
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| | NASM Space Artifacts: Apollo Display Keyboard (DSKY) |
| | The Apollo Guidance Computers, one installed on the Command and another on the Lunar Module, were designed by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now known as the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory) based on its experience with supplying the guidance computer for the Polaris missile. | | | Therefore it was necessary to design an interface to the computers that the astronauts could use effectively during all phases of the mission. | | | Nothing like the real-time interface required by the Apollo computers was known. |
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http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/artifacts/GC-ApolloDSKY.htm
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| | Virtual AGC Home Page |
| | The result is a computer model of the AGC which is itself capable of executing the original Apollo software on (for example) a desktop PC. | | | The computer and its software were developed at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, also known as Draper Labs. | | | In computer terms, Virtual AGC is an emulator. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo
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| | Re: Where can I find information on the computers used by the Apollo missions? |
| | G Procedure for Computation for the Fundamental Matrices | | | First, the primary navigation and guidance computer for the Apollo missions was called the AGC = Apollo Guidance Computer and, as the questioner states, was located physically in the Command Module (CM) and in the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM). | | | In this memory, each computer "word" is stored by a single magnetic core. |
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http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/aug99/935551364.Cs.r.html
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| | Apollo Computers. Service that is out of this world! |
| | Apollo Computers also handles all aspects of website design, development and hosting. | | | Apollo Computers designs, implements and supports all types of Local Area Networks, Wireless Networks, as well as Enterprise level Wide Area Networks. | | | We will evaluate your virus detection/protection software and your security practices to provide you with an understanding of how viruses could propagate through your system and how to protect against them. |
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http://www.apollocomp.com
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| | These computers only take hardware designed for HP computers. | | | The 700 series was the last attempt by HP to turn Domain-lovers onto HP-UX (their version of UNIX) by slapping the HP/Apollo logo onto a computer which could only run HP-UX. | | | That's because what you have is NOT an Apollo computer. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~archive/apollo/csa-archive/0229/22921
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| | Apollo Workstations |
| | Haven't seen that many with any of the other computers I've worked with. | | | Click here to view comments about other Apollo computers. | | | , the high-end Apollo machine, fastest machine of its time, and rivaled with the high-end SGI's in graphics performance as well. |
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http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/apollo
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| | The version 3.6b+ Apollo implementations of PLOT3D (ARC-12789) and PLOT3D/TURB3D (ARC-12785) were developed for use on Apollo computers running UNIX System V with BSD 4.3 extensions and the graphics library GMR3D Version 2.0. | | | Using PLOT3D, CFD physicists can view their computational models from any angle, observing the physics of problems and the quality of solutions. | | | Version 3.6b+ is supported for five computers and graphic libraries. |
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http://www.nttc.edu/cosmic/abstracts/arc-12789.html
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| | The computer has IBM AT compatible expansion slots for adding useful things such as: IBM Token Ring, Ethernet, Serial ports, 2nd hard disk controller, etc) Max memory is 32 Meg. | | | The use of COBOL cripples the mind; President, Iowa Student Computer Assn | | | The computer is a little over 1 year old and is actually still a current model. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~archive/apollo/csa-archive/0062/6287
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| | The Gemini Digital Computer: First Machine in Orbit. | | | Evolution of the hardware: Old technology versus new block I and Block I designs | | | - The Gemini Digital Computer: First Machine in Orbit - |
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http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computers/Part1.html
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| | Technical Scuba Diving Gear: Dive Computers, Apollo Underwater Scooters, Equipment for Nitrox Diving |
| | An Nitrox capable dive computer can help you in this regard. | | | Due to this potentially fatal hazard, divers using nitrox must adhere to special dive tables listing the maximum safe amount of time that a diver can stay underwater at a certain depth. | | | Whether youâre looking for top-of-the-line Dive Rite dry suits, Nitrox capable dive computers, Apollo underwater scooters, or other gear you can relax knowing Hollywoodivers will have you well outfitted. |
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http://www.hollywoodivers.com/tech_gear.html
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| | APOLLO |
| | I started playing with electronics from a very early age and very quickly got involved with computers at the ground floor (typing 6502 machine hex codes into a machine language monitor to write programs). | | | All computers have these things running around in them, so if you own a computer you shouldn't go complaining to me about it! | | | It pretty much took off from their, eventually leading into a shareware C compiler called DICE that I wrote for the Amiga and from there into UNIX (BSD in college, then Linux, then FreeBSD). |
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http://apollo.backplane.com
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