Eldon C. Hall
Eldon Hall was leader of the hardware design effort throughout the development of the AGC, and pioneered the use of integrated circuits (ICs) in this design. He had been interested in this technology from a very early stage in its development, spending time with both Jack Kirby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1962, Hall convinced NASA the ICs were the appropriate technology with which to build the AGC. Hall continued to lead the AGC design effort until 1969 when the project began to scale back. He contiuned to work for MIT/IL through that institution's spinoff from MIT to become Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. He retired in 1988 to write Journey to the Moon, his history of the Apollo Guidance Computer. Eldon Hall is a member of the AGC project advisory board and has participated in all of the AGC history conferences. He has written a brief autobiographical article and is author of many of the documents hosted on this site. --A.B., Jan 2002 |
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