A good starting reference to many of the computers used in spaceflight
is
NASA Contractor Report 182505
Computers in Spaceflight
The NASA Experience
James E. Tomayko
Wichita State University
Wichita, Kansas
It's available in hardcopy from CASI, and over the web from
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computers/Compspace.html
It gives a decent overview of the hardware involved, and has references
to very technical documents if you want to go into that much detail.
The HAL/S programming language is covered as an appendix.
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Received on Thu Apr 29 1999 - 10:40:50 BST