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=== Woulda Shoulda Coulda ===
The deadline for this draft was June 3 midnight. The next morning, I'm already thinking about what I could have included. :-)

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It is an accident of history that computers are programmed with text; Inca quipu, Mayan and old world weaving, and Jacquard machine-woven brocades were designed and coded visually and tactually. '''The read-only memory for the Apollo Guidance Computer was literally a rope of wires hand-woven through magnetic cores[A].''' Programs may be created, compiled, and evaluated with other sensibilities; '''...'''

[A] E. Hall, ''Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer'', Reston VA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1996.

GHTC2015

ghtc2015.pdf

ghtc2015.tex Latex file (will not "compile" without drawings, not included)

fra0.c Used to compute SSPS antenna sizes


Woulda Shoulda Coulda

The deadline for this draft was June 3 midnight. The next morning, I'm already thinking about what I could have included. :-)

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It is an accident of history that computers are programmed with text; Inca quipu, Mayan and old world weaving, and Jacquard machine-woven brocades were designed and coded visually and tactually. The read-only memory for the Apollo Guidance Computer was literally a rope of wires hand-woven through magnetic cores[A]. Programs may be created, compiled, and evaluated with other sensibilities; ...

[A] E. Hall, Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Reston VA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1996.

GHTC2015 (last edited 2015-07-13 06:17:50 by KeithLofstrom)