DIY_EFI Digest V3 #451

[Wouter de Waal]

Hi all

>Funny, way I heard it was that the chips were developed for the space program 
>so what was Armstrong's 'puter processor?      earliest one I ever heard of was
>6500 series....GENE
>
>> Armstrong, would have loved to have that much processing power,
>> when his on board altitude computer was unable to handle the
>> landing and he had to take over manualy. The 6502 was mid late
>> 70's processor used in the first Apple and the Apple 2 and 3.
>> The moon landing was in 69 pre dating even the Intel 4004 that

The user manual for the Apollo Guidance Computer was posted to usenet on
19 Dec 1995. Since I never throw anything away, I've put the 5 news
articles on ftp://ccii.dockside.co.za/pub/apollo. Have fun.

W