Earth Sky Stars » Manned Space Flight http://earthskystars.net/blog blog for earthskystars Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:35:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Build Your Own Lunar Lander Computer … http://earthskystars.net/blog/2009/07/14/build-your-own-lunar-lander-computer/ http://earthskystars.net/blog/2009/07/14/build-your-own-lunar-lander-computer/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:01:12 +0000 Bill Clugston http://earthskystars.net/blog/?p=181 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!

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