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GHTC2015
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.