[HN Gopher] X-ray reverse-engineering a hybrid module from 1960s... ___________________________________________________________________ X-ray reverse-engineering a hybrid module from 1960s Apollo test equipment Author : PaulHoule Score : 60 points Date : 2022-06-28 19:38 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.righto.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.righto.com) | arriu wrote: | If only we could ask the engineer designed the module "why did | you design it this way"? | | Perhaps something to think about when writing code. It's not | always enough to know what it's doing. Leave a comment with the | why :) | KerrAvon wrote: | I guess the obvious next question is whether NASA has | documentation for this stuff which might be obtainable. (I | don't recall whether Ken has already answered this in some | other forum/thread.) | kens wrote: | Mike Stewart has made a huge effort to dig up Apollo | documentation from various archives. For the updata test box, | he eventually found a high-level functional specification. It | mostly confirmed what we had already figured out. We haven't | found any detailed information on this box, and nothing about | the internal modules. But maybe we'll be lucky and some will | turn out. | | The virtual AGC site has links to a lot of Apollo documents, | with a focus on the AGC: | https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/links2.html | x5x wrote: | kens wrote: | Author here if anyone has questions about obscure 1960s | technology... | x5x wrote: | ThePowerOfFuet wrote: | You will never not get an upvote from me. Thank you for | everything that you do. I've been hooked since your USB power | supply teardowns! | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-28 23:00 UTC)