CW@50: News in July

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CW@50 - 24 July 1969: The Moon machines Part 2

Source:  TNMOC

The Univac 1108 complex at NASA’s manned spacecraft centre at Houston handles data on such essential details as how much power, oxygen and other consumables remain in the spacecraft. Also, using data fed in via a 418, which acts as a communications processor, these machines compute the effect of wind forces during launch and re-entry.

The National Museum of Computing has also provided us with full hi-res scans of the pages in this gallery. You can read all the articles featured by downloading this PDF >>

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