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Apollo Guidance Computer Part 11: Samtec manufactures NASA-spec contacts for our AGC

CuriousMarc 76,713 6 years ago
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A large thank you and a short video about the Samtec contacts we just received. That was a critical item we needed for before resuming our work on the real AGC. Visit Samtec: https://www.samtec.com For PCBs, use our sponsor PCBWay: https://www.pcbway.com Buy the CuriousMarc DSKY and other retro-computing T-shirts to support the channel here: https://teespring.com/search?q=curiousmarc More information about what's shown in the videos on my web-site: https://www.curiousmarc.com/computing/apollo-guidance-computer Some relevant links: Playlist of the restoration series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb59FWrLZfdlisi_x7-Ut_-w7 Block I AGC period documentary: https://youtu.be/ndvmFlg1WmE Inertial navigation system documentary: https://youtu.be/wD97RSpiZe0 Schematics: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/links.html#AGC_electrical_schematics and: https://archive.org/details/agc_handbook_jp2 Mike's AGC backplane viewer: http://apolloguidance.computer/2003100_071/pins AGC software repo: https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk: https://youtu.be/xx7Lfh5SKUQ

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