Apollo Guidance Computer prototype replica

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, jim stephens wrote:

> I was thinking blinken lights though this fellow is light years ahead of what
> I could do.  Also I would think the project done on a single small board
> with an fpga would be a better way to do it, brought out to the DSKY, or
> built into it.

The journey is the reward.  Re-creating the original prototype using
similar tools and components as they would have at NASA in the 1960s will
probably teach you a lot more about the history than rendering it in an
FPGA.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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