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  • SOLVED Where is Cakewalk Generic surface data stored? (p.5)
2016/01/04 07:01:15
BobF
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The NASA Apollo tracking stations had Univac computers.  I don't remember exactly the model but 6xx seems to ring a bell.  They had a teletype machine for the I/O console. I worked on the Ascension Island tracking station before moving to Goddard Space Flight Center where I was a programmer.  Ascension Island and the tracking station in Spain were the two tracking stations that tracked the Eagle to the moon landing.




History.  Right here.  IIRC the UNIVAC I was twiddling bits in was an 890 or some such.  Push button indicators, 30 bit word with parity for each half.  Instead of a motherboard the entire thing was wirewrapped.  It's job was basically to compute a true local vertical by overlaying inertial instrument measurements with "local gravity maps".  The clock was a tapped analog delay line providing 4 ticks per cycle from the main 10Khz clock.  Superscalar was still a dream ...
 
9 track tape (I got to skip paper) was the only way to export/import the Selectric Console configuration.
 
Off to get my kizmos configured to control Sonar!  
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