Restorers Try to Get Lunar Module Guidance Computer Up and Running | WSJ
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Published 2019-09-11
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All Comments (21)
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For reasons passing understanding, this video falsely asserts that they did it all in two weeks, which really undersells just how much effort this crew went through. It took MONTHS of work. The first video in the series Marc did came out Nov 13, 2018 and the final working run wasn't posted until Jul 16, 2019. The whole team did an amazing job, over a long period of time.
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The brain power in that room is freaking impressive. I felt dumb just watching
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This computer is absolutey priceless. Congratulations to the whole team.
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It couldn't had ended up in better hands. Well done guys. You saved this piece of history from the junkyard. You can all be very proud of yourselves!!!
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It's so awesome that he chose to restore the AGC. He easily could have just auctioned it off, made a couple hundred grand and called it a day. Taking the time and effort to get it up and running makes the whole thing just so much cooler.
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2 KB worth of RAM and a 4 MHz CPU landed Apollo 11 on the moon. It's really hard to comprehend that in 2019. 😂😂😂😂
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I’d love to see them hook up a control stick and run it as a simulation on a modern computer so that someone can manually “land on the moon” using the AGC. That would be so cool!
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It hurts me that such historical artifacts ended up as scrap instead of in a museum or a historical collection but, on the other hand, it may had been this that made it possible for this computer to end up in the right hands after all, and I'm happy it did!
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It still amazes me that something so complex at the time was the start of the computer tech that we now take for granted. To me it seems unbelieveable that our mobile phones contain more circuits & processing power etc than the ones that actually landed man on the Moon. Congratulations to Marc & his team for preserving a very special part of exploration history.
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I watched every bit of the videos they posted about the restoration. Amazingly interesting stuff. Hearing the programs were gone, nothing could run it, nobody knew nothing about nothing, so gratifying to see the restoration bring together the programmers and run the program.
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Even just getting it cleaned up, performing repairs, and diagnostics is an achievement.
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I watched this series on Marc's YouTube channel from day one and it was an incredible journey!! The series has some incredible moments and absolutely worth checking out. As a space tech enthusiast, I wish I had enough brain power to have had even a small part in this project.
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The past must be studied in order to understand our present and then plan for our future. Old tech is always a humbling kick right in the commodity of what we take for granted!
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When androids rule the world they will be thankful and, therefore, merciful to their organic creators for keeping alive their ancestors.
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I started working on circuit boards in the 80s but found it advantageous to look back at previous designs to understand current designs of circuits. It’s best not to trash old equipment once it’s gone it’s gone.
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Big thanks to Jimmie Locke for finding and taking care of this computer, and to CuriousMarc for producing such an amazing series about the restoration
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CuriousMarc's video series on this was a nail bitter --- every video was gold and I couldn't wait for the next one. The last video was so satisfying.
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I'm an electronic professor from Barcelona and I explain the students what is the AGC and show them the schematics. I wish they are fascinated as me!!! Thank you.
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So glad these guys are preserving this amazing machine! To have it power up and run after such a long time is an amazing achievement.
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I watched every one of Marc's videos. It was an incredible achievement, and one that I hope will be celebrated for years.
