Apollo Guidance Computer prototype replica

Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner spc at conman.org
Sun Dec 26 16:03:14 CST 2004


It was thus said that the Great Ben Franchuk once stated:
> 
> Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> But I want the whole System!  Anybody got a Spare Saturn V booster to go with
> that computer. :) 

  While I don't have one, there are a few just lying around in central
Florida---I'm sure you might be able to work out a deal with the owner 8-P

  -spc (Although the fuel might be a bit hard to come by)






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