Posted on 07/06/2016 4:30:59 PM PDT by Ray76
A couple weeks ago I was at a party where out of the corner of my eye I noticed what looked like a giant phone book sitting open on a table. It was printed with perforated green and white paper bound in a binder who’s cover looked a little worse for the wear. I had closer look with my friend James Kinsey. What we read was astonishing; Program 63, 64, 65, lunar descent and landing. Error codes 1201, 1202. Comments printed in the code, code segments hastily circled with pen. Was this what we thought we were looking at? And who brings this to a party?
We were looking at what is rumored to be the only remaining paper copy of the Lunar Module’s source code.
(Excerpt) Read more at hackaday.com ...
What still blows my mind about the code in the Lunar Module was that it tracked the location of the Service Module and AUTONOMOUSLY knew when to launch and what trajectory to fly to rendezvous with the orbiting Command Module. I guess they were worried about not having communication. I’m still amazed that it could do that, given the state of computing back then.
Fred Haise, Sr.: Three hours by the checklist.
Jim Lovell: We don't have that much time.
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WOW! Great stuff and great site. Thanks
What CPU did they use?
Not sure of the CPU, but the memory was woven like a quilt! Amazing!
Did anybody find any Easter Eggs?
Ah, the old green bar printouts, spit out by line printers. You had plenty of room to make notes and scribble in new code, in contrast to the letter size pages that come out of laser printers today. You had stacks of the stuff on the top of the desk representing the programs you were currently working on, and stacks on the floor in the corner of old programs you might have to revisit some day.
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Thanks, btt.
Wow, excellent story. Y'know, on Apollo 11 Buzz almost shut the hatch just out of habit, then noticed in time that there was no way to reopen it from the outside, and just left it open. This was reported, and future LMs had a 'latchkey'. Thanks Ray76.
That would have been a disaster! What were they thinking???....................
It was a training error I suspect — closing the hatch was a natural thing to do.
However, the skin of the LM was so thin, they could have sliced an arm-sized hole to reach the inside latch, and flown back in suits. Would have been inconvenient, but relative to hanging around until the air ran out, not too bad.
-Never-ever- under any circumstances leave home without a roll of quality duck tape.
Revelation
12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
12:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.
That - the lack of the indefinite article - was no mistake or transmission blip.
Nothing is by accident.
"The Eagle has landed."
•bring (a fish) to land, especially with a net or hook:
• informal
succeed in obtaining or achieving (something desirable), especially in the face of strong competition:
Leaving out the indefinite article before “man” makes no sense, since “man” in that case is synonymous with “mankind.” The sentence would contradict itself.
Leaving out the indefinite article before “man” makes no sense, since “man” in that case is synonymous with “mankind.” The sentence would contradict itself.
Talk about [Divinely orchestrated] timing with this "blast" from the past (thread and post from Jul/Aug 2016). Out of nowhere.
The first Moon landing is one of my favorite subjects. The entire planet had its eyes to the sky in order to hear the first words from a man standing on the Moon. Big big message in it. Go big or go home. Big like, "In the beginning Go.."
The theme of my post is one of the main themes of Purim, which is that nothing is by accident. Perfect. Thanks.
succeed in obtaining or achieving (something desirable), especially in the face of strong competition: <<<
Check the resurrected thread, with the last few comments. It is from 2016. Pinged to me out of nowhere from IronJack, in reply to a post.
The message is all in the timing.
Come on up to the Moon for a great view.
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