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Build your own NASA computer |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
 Ever want to guide a lunar landing, or calculate the proper angle for re-entry into an atmosphere? Sure you could use your computer, but why not do it the way they did in the Space Race years with your own Block I Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). John Pultorak has built one from MIT's 1964 plans. Granted, it took 4 year to make. But we all understand labors of love.
The computer packs a whopping 12K of fixed memory (ROM) and 1K of RAM and clocks in at 1.024 MHz. Oh yea, get ready to run a benchmark on this bad boy. Seriously though, while this might not be a feasible computer to use to play your games or do almost anything, the case may spark and idea or two in your for your next inter-stellar mod.
From klabs.org via retrothing.com
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