NASSP and a real AGC

[thewonderidiot]

Do the CMs in museums still have the CMC inside? If so, you could read the actual-actual-flown software (maybe they even let you inside ).

(Un)fortunately no -- we know for a fact that almost all of the PGNCS hardware, including the AGCs, was removed from (almost?) all of the CMs after flight. There may be some exceptions like Apollo 11, but we have definite proof that the Apollo 12, Apollo 13, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, and Skylab-2 capsules, at a minimum, do not still contain their computers or ropes. This is both good and bad -- it's bad obviously in that a lot of the flown hardware is missing and possibly destroyed. But it does mean that many of the flown rope modules that do still exist don't belong to the Smithsonian, which means it is much easier to get access to them.

 

[Graham2001]

Some more brilliant Digital Archaeology...

 

[GLS]

If Mike were British, he would be Sir Mike by now...

 

[Graham2001]

Going by the information on the Virtual AGC website that footage would have been shot some time in mid 2023, since then he's managed to recover the compiled version of the Skylab version of the AGC operating system and a badly degraded verison of the software intended for the Block 1 Apollo missions, so a knighthood would definitely be in order if it were possible to give him one.

 

[Urwumpe]

Wouldn't reading out of the core rope memory be perfectly non-destructive? Especially if done slowly? If yes, it would at least be no problem to clone a memory module....

 

[n72.75]

Wouldn't reading out of the core rope memory be perfectly non-destructive? Especially if done slowly? If yes, it would at least be no problem to clone a memory module....

Yes, core-rope memory is not the same as core memory. The bits are encoded by wires passing through (or not passing through particular cores).

Block II ropes are extraordinarily fast to read, so much so that it's almost anticlimactic. Source: I had the privilege of seeing Mike read one in December of 2022.

 

[kuddel]

[...] I had the privilege of seeing Mike read one in December of 2022.

"Jealous Smiley" (if that exists)

 

[rcflyinghokie]

"Jealous Smiley" (if that exists)

As did I