Here is another amazing Apollo video from CuriousMarc (AJ6JV). Thanks to Bob KD4EBM for alerting me to this. We have recently been discussing the "Apollo rope memory" as I read Sunburst and Luminary by Don Eyles (ex K4ZHF). In this video Marc and his colleague Mike get ahold of some actual Apollo memory modules, develop a device that allows them to read it, and they discover a design error. Wow.
My analog HDR head hurts after watching this. Even Marc says he was approaching his limits in explaining all this.
I had not heard of the bug they discovered in the Apollo 11 software just a month before launch, and how they had to climb into the Saturn V to fix it. Amazing.
Thanks Marc, thanks Mike and thanks Bob.
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