Rope memory is weird ... [Fran Blanche] tore down a few modules from the Apollo Launch Vehicle Digital Computer a few years ago. Thanks to [Vincent], [Danie], and [Kent] for jumping on this ...

The Apollo mission was conceived at the height ... that astronauts used to get onto the lunar surface. Each computer had two types of memory, erasable and fixed. The fixed memory contained the ...

It weighs six pounds. Although already obsolete (it has only a 286 processor), it is faster and has more memory than the 70-pound computer on board the Apollo spacecraft that carried astronauts to ...