Ken Cox, Rick Nobles, Charley Parker and I got together to see what could be done about reducing the number of crew displays and inputs associated with the digital auto pilot (DAP). As you recall, the DAP’s require initialization by the crew who specify the spacecraft configuration, choice of RCS quads to be used, dead-band,…
Month: December 1966
MIT’s digital computers are saturated until the IBM 360 becomes operational
I guess I ought to record the saga of the MIT 360 computer, if only so that it may take it’s proper place in history. It is a little adventure which has been going on in the shadow of the more dramatic crises at MIT and is now rising to the surface in it’s own…
We’ve bit the bullet on GRR
The fact that the 206 LM is the only LM to be powered up when launched presents a requirement for some unique manner for the G&N to detect or at least be informed that liftoff has occurred. In the absence of a hardwire liftoff signal, it had been intended to transmit a guidance reference release…