IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This collection consists of reports, ...

There are hundreds if not thousands of artifacts from the Apollo program scattered around the globe, some twisted wrecks at the bottom of the ocean, others lovingly preserved and sitting in museums or ...

[..] but I'm pretty sure there are unresolved jumps when it loads, which get changed to sane values by some of the earliest code that runs after launch. [..] Click to expand... Almost all code does ...

Some people climb mountains to achieve greatness. Some people try to win championship sports games. John Pultorak built a working replica of a 40-year-old computer. Late last year, Pultorak of ...

The Apollo 14 moon landing was made possible by last-minute reprogramming of the lunar module's computers. The onboard computers were able to take advantage of integrated circuits. The computer I used ...

Abstract: Six decades ago, the Apollo program ushered in the first integrated-circuit flight computer—the Apollo Guidance Computer—and gave rise to the term “software.” Today, computation permeates ...

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It took about 2 MB of code to get Apollo 11 to the moon back in 1969. Recently, in a bit of fun, former NASA intern Chris Garry uploaded the full source code for the mission’s flight computer to the ...

Programmer Forrest Heller recently published a chart comparing the Apollo Guidance Computer used during NASA's Apollo 11 mission with three modern USB-C devices, including an ordinary Google Pixel ...

Cool stuff: A British startup has developed a watch geared at NASA super geeks (you know who you are). The timepiece takes the concept of the calculator watch, which was highly popular in the 1980s, ...