Showing posts with label Manned Space Flight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manned Space Flight. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Build Your Own Lunar Lander Computer ...

Talk about "old school"! Here's a link to building your own working replica of the Apollo 11 LEM guidance computer. It took John Pultorak, who is a 54 year old Lockheed Martin software engineer, 4 years to build and program it in his basement. He even documented the construction and posted the plans here. The computer contained a whopping 4k of RAM!