NASA's First Standard Spacecraft Computer (1984)

Posted by robertocarlos on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @02:28PM
from the fermatslibrary.com dept.

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/development-and-application-of-nasas-first-standard-spacecraft-computer

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Re:NASA's First Standard Spacecraft Computer (1984) by solidr53 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @03:42PM (#13118134)

I highly recommend this documentary: https://youtu.be/9YA7X5we8ng

This youtube channel has more great NASA documentaries as well.

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Re:NASA's First Standard Spacecraft Computer (1984) by ticotico on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:43PM (#13119861)

Wow! So cool. This is why I love HN. I just spent the last 3 hours reading the paper and then watched the documentary.

Amazing engineering.

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Re:NASA's First Standard Spacecraft Computer (1984) by coldcode on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @07:14PM (#13119431)

In the early 80's I worked on a Jovial compiler and runtime libraries for the Mil Std 1750A processor (which was a spec delivered from several companies in hardware) used by the Airforce and also used on various NASA spacecraft, in my case we used it on the F16 Fighter. Fairly sophisticated for back then, an antique today.

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Re:NASA's First Standard Spacecraft Computer (1984) by gravypod on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @03:03PM (#13117807)

Anyone interested in old NASA retro-computers might enjoy this: http://www.retrotechnology.com/memship/memship.html

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Re:NASA's First Standard Spacecraft Computer (1984) by msl on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @03:35PM (#13118064)

And anyone interested in the history of old NASA computers might enjoy this: http://history.nasa.gov/computers/contents.html

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Re:NASA's First Standard Spacecraft Computer (1984) by na85 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:30PM (#13119818)

Don't forget this classic!

http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

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