Apollo Guidance Computer Activities
 

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Author :

Alonso, Ramon L.;Laning, J. Hal

Year :

1960

Title :

Design Principles for a General Control Computer

City :

Cambridge, MA

Institution :

MIT Instrumentation Laboratory

Pages :

105

Short Title :

Design Principles for a General Control Computer

Report Number :

R-276

Abstract :

"Some of the properties of the computer [particularly well suited for outer space and other airborne control applications] are: variable speed, power consumption proportional to speed, relatively few transistors, relatively large storage for program and constants, and parallel transfer of words."

Notes :

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URL :

/hrs/apollo/public/archive/1036.pdf
 -- contributed by Sandy Brown, August 12, 2002