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Originally Posted by avandonk
At the time I worked at Kodak Research Labs in Coburg. The whole factory started to bristle with TV arials in nearly every available spot. We all watched the whole thing in the electronics lab as they had the best setup. After it was all over went back to my Digital PDP 8 computer with 2k of memory to aquire and process some photometric data from a Cary Spectrophotometer. That was cutting edge in those days. We also had a 'game' on the PDP 8 that simulated landing the lunar module. You had to type in your % thrust and wait for the computer to type out your altitude, velocity components and fuel left, on a teletype (gloryfied typewriter). If I was flying the Lunar module we would have run out of fuel and crashed nine out of ten. There was one person who was a computer wiz and he could land it every time. Yep even in in those days they already existed!
Bert
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I only had 1k memory in my PDP8 a few years later - jealous!
I liked putting in 100% thrust, regardless of the start conditions. It would stop, think while the lights would flash, then it would tell you the maximum altitude reached and the impact velocity, after you ran out of fuel and finally slowed down and returned to an almighty crash on the surface! I was always fairly destructive!
