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Build Your Own Apollo Guidance Computer

Posted by michael on from the some-assembly-required dept.

PingXao writes "Well, if you can't exactly give the Moon you can give the gift of a computer to get you there. Almost a year ago this Slashdot story about the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer referenced a pretty cool Dr. Dobbs Journal article from their History of Computing series. Now there's this guy who built one in his basement! It took him 4 years, $2,980 in cash, 2,500 hours of labor and 15,000 hand-wrapped wire connections with 3,500 feet of wire to build. It might be next Christmas before you could build one of your own to give as a gift, but he promises you can build your own for less and it will be better than his. The perfect gift for the space geek who has everything. This guy is my hero."

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  1. Does this prove by tarquin_fim_bim · · Score: -1, Troll

    that NASA really did put human beings on the Moon and brought them back alive thirty five years ago? Or more likely that this guy can navigate his way to some secluded spot in Nevada and film himself mincing about in slow motion?

  2. Holy shit, you're such a fucking fag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Guess whoes back talking shit this mutha fuckin faggot is a mutha fuckin bitch saying he hates rap with a passion then all I got to say is fuck you you mutha fuckin bitch I fukin say alot of curse words because I fuckin hate when you start hating on rap if anybody gots a problem with the way I think then you could find a fuckin short peir and take a mutha fuckin walk I hope you fuckin die a long and painful death you fuckin bitch later you mutha fuckin haters word to your mutha fuckin mutha

  3. Re:$3000 by tchdab1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think it's down to about 150 euros by now.

  4. Cowboy Neal's body by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Cowboy Neal's body was a fucking awful sight,
    All laid up with gonohhrea and caked about with shite,
    The agony of syphilis kept him up all night,
    But he still went buggering on.

  5. Re:Your Palm Pilot is not radiation hardened. by iamnotacrook · · Score: 0, Troll

    You supply no references and expect us to believe you? Tell the name of the company and the straight guys you know. And Geiger counters have additional means for scaling as you well know.

  6. PROPZ TO ALL MY NIGGA FRIENDS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Have a gay, black, merry Christmas niggers!

    Remember: GNAA 0wn j00!

  7. Re:Your Palm Pilot is not radiation hardened. by iamnotacrook · · Score: 0, Troll
    Your company doesnt not exist in google. I will give you the benefit of the doubt that they dont have a website.

    My credentials are that I am a Java programmer and am also studying accounting. Maybe this can't compare to you but I am sorry, I am trying hard.