the "FIRST PC" - How about the computer on the Lunar Module?

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Apr 29 01:18:50 1999

Really! The original "Lunar Lander" game . . .

I often marvel at how they manage these decade-long development cycles.
Imagine the apparent lunacy of launching a 10-year-old design just because
it takes that long to integrate, manufacture, and test it.

The simulator must have been written in Threetran . . .

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: John Lewczyk <jlewczyk_at_his.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: the "FIRST PC" - How about the computer on the Lunar Module?


>I was watching the show on the history of computers on the Discovery
channel
>and they talked about the computer on the Lunar Module that landed on the
>moon. It had 5000 integrated circuits in it and was quite the marvel for
>its time. Could this be a candidate for the first Personal Computer? They
>were kinda pricey! ;-)
>
>Does anybody have any information on that cpu - word size, instruction set,
>memory, control panel, etc? Who manuafactured it? Where can one go and
see
>it (without going to the moon!) How about the software for it?
>
>An simulator for one would be pretty cool to see, especially if it was
>running the program that they used to land on the moon!
>
>
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