Project to build a working reproduction of the 1964 prototype for the Block I Apollo Guidance Computer. The AGC is the flight computer for the Apollo moon landings, with one unit in the command module and one in the LEM.
Sounds like a great weekend project, but why build an AGC?
Early computers are interesting. Because they’re simple, you can (if you like) actually understand the entire computer, from hardware to software.
The AGC is the most interesting early computer because: it flew the first men to the moon and has interesting architectural features.
So there you have it. Please submit photo’s of your home-made AGC to the team here at Forever Geek in the usual manner.
Why NASA don’t send missions to Moon any more? And don’t say that there is nothing left to explore. I’m still not 100% sure that somebody really went to the Moon in ’60′s.
For inspiration:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294/
Because there is nobody to compete with now, since it was mostly political project, not scientific.