NASA needed a small and lightweight computer to send humans on their journey to the Moon and back, but computers of the day were made out of discrete components that were heavy, large, complicated, ...

Some people change the world with technology. Some people use technology to change the world. And some people find ways to mine Bitcoin on really, really, really old computers. Ancient Computer ...

There are hundreds if not thousands of artifacts from the Apollo program scattered around the globe, some twisted wrecks at the bottom of the ocean, others lovingly preserved and sitting in museums or ...

I've lurked here for over a decade, thanks for all of the great articles. This is a masterpiece and one of the most fascinating articles that I've ever read. Thanks for making my commute home so much ...

Some people climb mountains to achieve greatness. Some people try to win championship sports games. John Pultorak built a working replica of a 40-year-old computer. Late last year, Pultorak of ...

“This Palm Centro program is running the computer software used on the Apollo moon landings. It utilizes Ron Burkey’s Virtual AGC engine for the emulation (www ...

It comes as no surprise that the guidance computers aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft were impossibly primitive compared to the pocket computers we all carry around 50 years later. But on his website, ...

Programmer Forrest Heller recently published a chart comparing the Apollo Guidance Computer used during NASA's Apollo 11 mission with three modern USB-C devices, including an ordinary Google Pixel ...

[..] but I'm pretty sure there are unresolved jumps when it loads, which get changed to sane values by some of the earliest code that runs after launch. [..] Click to expand... Almost all code does ...