The STEM thread

[HSanders]

View: https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/1993414387596734694?s=20

Ironically, the sixties, which was probably not a decade anybody thought of as a peak time for "women's lib" featured this woman who obviously got her job for her brain power alone. as it should be.

 

[patswin]

Ironically, the sixties, which was probably not a decade anybody thought of as a peak time for "women's lib" featured this woman who obviously got her job for her brain power alone. as it should be.

As you may know I am in the Boston area. MIT and Draper Labs were two of the huge contractors on the Apollo program. I have a now elderly friend who was a Draper Labs engineer and worked on the Apollo program for years, especially on the hardware for the guidance computer for the LM. ( there were two, one for the command module and one for the lander) He knew Hamilton well. He has told me some great stories about those times. Someone in Texas trash picked an old LM computer and restored it and made a YT video about it, which I shared with my friend, and boy did he love seeing that.

 

[spacecrime]

Was that a vacuum-tube model?

As you may know I am in the Boston area. MIT and Draper Labs were two of the huge contractors on the Apollo program. I have a now elderly friend who was a Draper Labs engineer and worked on the Apollo program for years, especially on the hardware for the guidance computer for the LM. ( there were two, one for the command module and one for the lander) He knew Hamilton well. He has told me some great stories about those times. Someone in Texas trash picked an old LM computer and restored it and made a YT video about it, which I shared with my friend, and boy did he love seeing that.

 

[patswin]

Was that a vacuum-tube model?

There were no vacuum tubes at all in the Apollo hardware. In fact it was the beginning of transistorized circuits.

 

[spacecrime]

There were no vacuum tubes at all in the Apollo hardware. In fact it was the beginning of transistorized circuits.

I wasn't really serious. I do remember calibrating military radios in the late 60's with a vacuum tube HP frequency counter, though.

 

[patswin]

I wasn't really serious. I do remember calibrating military radios in the late 60's with a vacuum tube HP frequency counter, though.

I have a Ham radio from the mid 60s that is full of vacuum tubes, and still works........

 

[Aloyouis]

As you may know I am in the Boston area. MIT and Draper Labs were two of the huge contractors on the Apollo program. I have a now elderly friend who was a Draper Labs engineer and worked on the Apollo program for years, especially on the hardware for the guidance computer for the LM. ( there were two, one for the command module and one for the lander) He knew Hamilton well. He has told me some great stories about those times. Someone in Texas trash picked an old LM computer and restored it and made a YT video about it, which I shared with my friend, and boy did he love seeing that.

‘Someone in Texas trash picked an old LM computer and restored it and made a YT video about it‘

WtF? Link Puh-Lease

 

[Aloyouis]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0PIXvjTasI


This?

 

[patswin]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0PIXvjTasI


This?

That’s it brotha. Awesome story too.

 

[Aloyouis]

That’s it brotha. Awesome story too.

Yeah, it is worth watching for sure. Thanks!