Well done Fran. There is nothing like trying to make a faithful replica to fully appreciate a historically significant artifact of engineering. You end up learning so much more. You relate very well the many steps, excitement at moments of revelation, and even emotion of piecing together the true details. You become part of the story. And yes, I have spent many hours admiring "your" DSKY at the Computer History Museum! I'd love to bring it back to life one day. That might take some real Museum convincing. But we have done a good job so far with the IBM 1401 and the PDP-1. Maybe we can show your replica instead!
More convincing would be needed for what I have in mind. Have the circuits of one production unit depotted and properly drawn out for duplication. I know of some folks that would likely volunteer for the project and that's actually part of their 9 - 5 jobs.
This is absolutely amazing stuff. You have no idea how jealous we are that you were standing on the platform of the simulator where all the astronauts had to have once stood. Then you get to open up a piece of history and poke around inside. Just blown away by how cool this is and trying to picture what it was like working on that stuff when it was new. Great project, Fran!
I need to make a correction about the front cover of the DSKY. It is not a casting. As delicate and intricate as it looks, it was made from a solid block of aluminum, and carved out using cutting tools. If you look at the blue print, it calls for 6061 aluminum plate, a common way of making on-off aerospace parts (I should know)
Amazing. It is not often when a person can actually touch and stand with humanity's extraterrestrial history. I am truly in awe and more than a little envious. Good job and congrats.
Dear Fran... you really DID it SUPER this time!!! I think nobody else than *technician* cold have such an "inside detailed glimpse" I really thank you for your patience for looking at and search around the right permissions to GET IN in those places... FANTASTIC JOB FRAN!!!!!
My father was a guidance control engineer for NASA from 1964-1971 very involved in this equipment. We may still have many of the manuals he brought home on this.
Fran- Thanks for this and all of your other vids. It's hard to describe the appeal of your presentations. There is the joyous enthusiasm for the days of geek-gone-by, and your clear and focused presentation of the topic itself. Then there's you. Cool, clear, professional. I particularly love your expressive mouth that sometimes forms a wry twitch (especially in the informal pics). The hundreds of thousands of people who have enjoyed your videos all told reflect your contribution to geekhood around the world. We're all looking forward to seeing more of you and sharing your enthusiasm for life and gizmos.
Amazing story Fran, I enjoyed it intensely. I'm also amazed about your knowledge about all of this. Since I am now watching the video's about this project in a backward order, I am even more convinced you should continue making a working replica. You have great knowledge and skills (as I also noticed watching the story on the NIMO tube) and are the right person to do this. Future Apollo enthousiast will thank you for what you will have accomplished! Great project, please continue!
I'll just watch this for the first ten minutes before I feed the kids... oh oh... fifty minutes later and I've watched it in a single sitting... best thing I've watched all week!
want to be forced to get a pizza delivered .... watch the restoration of an AGC ... 20 episodes ... going form not working to working ... a TRUE apollo AGC ... it is well worth the watch ... ... ua-cam.com/video/2KSahAoOLdU/v-deo.html
I am just floored; I don’t have the words to elaborate. Your narrative of this experience is just great. Looking forward to future developments. Cheers, Mark
I'm happy to have run across your site a few months ago and especially this Part 1 video of the DSKY. It brought back fond memories of sitting and standing in the Command Module and LM Simulators at NASA JSC Houston. We used to fly the heck out of those things and although the CM was a fun fly, nothing beat the LM flights. You knew you were not really flying but the graphics were of such unreal quality, you would swear you really went somewhere and honestly the first few times I flew the LM, I actually became a bit dizzy standing there. They say those were the days because they really were.
Thank you Fran for the time and sharing this great project with us. Got goosebumps a couple of times with some of the stills and you standing on the platform of the great pioneer heroes. Some of those housings 25:34, 28:29 looked like they were beryllium/copper alloys cast and machined which may have contributed to the weight but gave the strength and electrical properties needed? Can't wait to see how you are going to pull off the EL display, relays(?) and 160 matrix, let alone the amazing key pad. A real Pleasure and honored to watch this! Best of luck and skill. ~PJ
At about @19:20 and throughout the rest. What a wonderful adventure,thank you for taking me with you in this vlog Fran! -Came here from your most recent March 30 DSKY update.
You are so, so fantastic! A hero, a leader, a legend. whether you accept this or not. Please keep going and being the awesome human that you are. I appreciate you greatly.
Super amazing work! Frames are magnificent examples of NC (Numerical Control) machining, they were made from solid blocks. Programed onto punch tape by hand. Will be waiting with great anticipation for more installments!
Hi Fran ! Love your videos !! It must have been a bit of a disappointment to dismantle the DSKY and find that there were no real electronics hiding in there, that it was all ported. Thank you so much Fran. This is the best film ive ever seen on UA-cam.
I'm only 2/3rds of the way through the video but this awesome stuff. Your dedication to preserving and reproduction this part of our history is amazing. I'm glad you got a little reward with the simulator! That was very cool.
You are like a kid in a candy store with those buttons and the fact that the computer history museum is getting the one you disassembled! Looking forward to the next video...
Thank you for sharing the only pictures I've seen of the German flying wing. I saw a documentary some time back where a replica was made and tested for stealth capabilities, but not once did they show the extant plane.
Hi Fran; this is really cool and it's so amazing you got to see the actual simulator they trained in! I'm an aerospace engineering student at Penn State and I was just doing some researching on the AGC and found your video. I had the honor of meeting Charlie Duke (Apollo 16 LMP) last year during his visit to PSU for our Lunar Lion mission that we are working on (lunarlion.psu.edu/) and it was arguably one of the most amazing moments of my life. He talked with us about what it was like to walk on the moon and drive the lunar rover around and I got my picture taken with him and his autograph. I had a distant relative who worked for NASA back in the early 60's and I'm lucky enough to also have Ed White's autograph in my collection of Apollo astronaut signatures. As you probably know, Ed White was one of the Apollo 1 astronauts who died in the fire. Glad you are caring for such an amazing piece of history! I wish more people from my generation found an interest in this stuff!
Fran, you have done an amazing job of sleuthing all the proper design criteria, I can see that you are also a perfectionist, nothing wrong with that, I am sure that you are getting a maximum of satisfaction executing this project. Back in 1992 I built a relay computer from chunky DPDT 24VDC ice cube relays. Boy it gave me goose bumps to hear it calculate a square root, There is something almost alchemical about doing one on one investigations into the science of the past. Lead to gold, water to wine, in antique truth there is more than just knowledge available to be tapped. Thanks you very much for sharing, take care and may you succeed in all of your pursuits. Luv 'ya kiddo BJ
Uh...what did you just say? Very, very cool. There's a sense to this engineering that you feel the presence of the bygone designers and assemblers; as though their spirits exist within the fractals of those technology components. Thank you.
Just came across this video. The ENTIRE AGC weighs close to 70 lbs. The backplane section which contains the majority of the electronics weighs 35 pounds. I held and examined that 1/2 in New Jersey about 10 years ago. It had some of 1st ever made integrated circuits (logic gates). NASA had large quantities of these made, ran tests on the batches, and used the best to install in the backplane. Fascinating stuff. An equalivent of this entire system could be replacated in a fraction of the original weight. But such a computer at about 70lbs in the 1960's was incredible!
Damn! Nice job! It's actually kinda funny, because I spent most of a day last month trying to photograph the Block I DSKY displayed at Udvar-Hazy in order to resolve some questions about the mounting and interface with the rest of the console. Best of luck reproducing the EL display!
Holy Crips, I worked at Garber since 1990 in the restoration shops. My friend Karl is a good friend of mine. I can't believe they wouldn't let you film the place.
If you want to see inside the potted component modules without trying to dissolve the potting, you could request to do a CT scan of it. Low-power X-rays from a CT scanner are non-destructive, and will not harm the antique electronics. With the 3D slice data you could create a full-detail reconstruction of the hidden components.
I had one of the EL night lights when I was a kid. Being a good little geek, it was impossible NOT to take it apart! :-) The exercise was not hugely enlightening, but I can tell you that the backplane was steel with the EL material fused to it. The front electrode was a transparent coating that was either painted on or fused on. I can't remember the details of the connection of the front electrode, but do remember a small insulated wire connecting it to the AC plug. Likewise I do not remember how the front was insulated, but I THINK it was just a transparent plastic sheet.
Thanks Fran, a fascinating description. The Apollo 11 landing was one of my earliest memories and so the whole program means a lot! To have stood where they stood, wow!
WOW!! So jealous!! Your one step closer to the moon Fran!! I really enjoyed your Vlog. Very fascinating. I wonder why Sylvania chose a direction of current flow reversing 800 times per second at 250 volts? One of the best TVs I ever owned was manufactured by Sylvania in the 80s. If only they matched the 160 pin configuration, they could have avoided utlizing all the extra wiring. Great video. If you ever write a book, title it "Through the Eyes of Fran". Thanks for sharing your experience. ☺
I love the choice of 'font' on the original display. It's not like a typical 7 segment display. Very 'futuristic' looking despite being tech from yesteryear
There were actually 3 DSKYs on each Apollo mission. The Command Module had 2 (connected to the same AGC), while the LM had one for its AGC. The picture you show at 8:02 is of the main control panel DSKY for the CM AGC. There was another DSKY in that space behind the main control panel (the “lower equipment bay”, I think it was called), which was big enough to “stand” (or at least stretch out) in. That’s where the navigator took star sightings. I think you might find shots of that area in various TV documentaries from that era, posted here on UA-cam.
So is there a downloadable copy of that photo of the operating DSKY, or your aspect corrected version? My Googlefu is weak, as all I keep getting are the reproductions you mention.
FYI - the current RR Auction has an original Block II DSKY electroluminescent numeric side display up for bid. It is item #4148. The display is new, still sealed in the original packaging. This is the October 2018 auction.
Are the measurements you took on the panel (particularly the keyboard section) available online? I'm curious about the buttons themselves too.. what's the throw on the buttons, what force to push them, etc.
Your best work yet! You might want to look into 3D printing to reproduce some of the parts as machining them would be very expensive, and it may be of interest for your viewers to see 3D printing.
Awesome project and dedication to the preservation of the old technology that most people have never heard of. I watch your channel every day. Love the projects.
Fran, regarding hardware/fasteners. "Hex head screws" are actually socket head cap screws (SHCS). And "special bolts" are captive fasteners (can be captive nuts or captive screws). Not being critical, just passing on correct terminology for you and others.
Such an awesome project, Fran. It's great to see someone who is so obviously enthusiastic about the research and discoveries you are making. And when you described your conversation and thoughts when standing on the Apollo simulator, I got chills. Well played.
Well done Fran. There is nothing like trying to make a faithful replica to fully appreciate a historically significant artifact of engineering. You end up learning so much more. You relate very well the many steps, excitement at moments of revelation, and even emotion of piecing together the true details. You become part of the story.
And yes, I have spent many hours admiring "your" DSKY at the Computer History Museum! I'd love to bring it back to life one day. That might take some real Museum convincing. But we have done a good job so far with the IBM 1401 and the PDP-1. Maybe we can show your replica instead!
Indeed. You need to compare notes with her.
That comment sure did age well
More convincing would be needed for what I have in mind. Have the circuits of one production unit depotted and properly drawn out for duplication. I know of some folks that would likely volunteer for the project and that's actually part of their 9 - 5 jobs.
This is absolutely amazing stuff. You have no idea how jealous we are that you were standing on the platform of the simulator where all the astronauts had to have once stood. Then you get to open up a piece of history and poke around inside. Just blown away by how cool this is and trying to picture what it was like working on that stuff when it was new. Great project, Fran!
This is groundbreaking technology archaeology, Fran. Great work. Future generations of Apollo enthusiasts thank you.
I need to make a correction about the front cover of the DSKY. It is not a casting. As delicate and intricate as it looks, it was made from a solid block of aluminum, and carved out using cutting tools. If you look at the blue print, it calls for 6061 aluminum plate, a common way of making on-off aerospace parts (I should know)
*one-of
Fascinating story. It's a shame that so much of our history is lost, but thanks to individuals like you some can still be presurved.
Amazing. It is not often when a person can actually touch and stand with humanity's extraterrestrial history. I am truly in awe and more than a little envious. Good job and congrats.
Dear Fran... you really DID it SUPER this time!!!
I think nobody else than *technician* cold have such an "inside detailed glimpse"
I really thank you for your patience for looking at and search around the right permissions to GET IN in those places...
FANTASTIC JOB FRAN!!!!!
My father was a guidance control engineer for NASA from 1964-1971 very involved in this equipment. We may still have many of the manuals he brought home on this.
Fran- Thanks for this and all of your other vids. It's hard to describe the appeal of your presentations. There is the joyous enthusiasm for the days of geek-gone-by, and your clear and focused presentation of the topic itself. Then there's you. Cool, clear, professional. I particularly love your expressive mouth that sometimes forms a wry twitch (especially in the informal pics). The hundreds of thousands of people who have enjoyed your videos all told reflect your contribution to geekhood around the world. We're all looking forward to seeing more of you and sharing your enthusiasm for life and gizmos.
Amazing story Fran, I enjoyed it intensely. I'm also amazed about your knowledge about all of this. Since I am now watching the video's about this project in a backward order, I am even more convinced you should continue making a working replica. You have great knowledge and skills (as I also noticed watching the story on the NIMO tube) and are the right person to do this. Future Apollo enthousiast will thank you for what you will have accomplished! Great project, please continue!
Excellent on all aspects, attention to detail, persistence toward the goal, preservation of our technological history.
I'll just watch this for the first ten minutes before I feed the kids... oh oh... fifty minutes later and I've watched it in a single sitting... best thing I've watched all week!
want to be forced to get a pizza delivered .... watch the restoration of an AGC ... 20 episodes ... going form not working to working ... a TRUE apollo AGC ... it is well worth the watch ...
... ua-cam.com/video/2KSahAoOLdU/v-deo.html
Very cool!
Very cool indeed, and really good to see the care she is taking in reproducing this display. Thank you for sharing, *****!
I'm sorry, but no, I hope not...
ah ye
I am just floored; I don’t have the words to elaborate. Your narrative of this experience is just great. Looking forward to future developments. Cheers, Mark
Wow. What an amazing story. And you tell it well. I know that you will cherish those memories for the rest of your life.
So cool. I am so jealous. Thanks for letting us live vicariously through your experience.
Your sincere enthusiasm is infectious!
Absolutely brilliant. So happy for you getting the opportunity to do this, you deserve it. And thanks for sharing.
I'm happy to have run across your site a few months ago and especially this Part 1 video of the DSKY. It brought back fond memories of sitting and standing in the Command Module and LM Simulators at NASA JSC Houston. We used to fly the heck out of those things and although the CM was a fun fly, nothing beat the LM flights. You knew you were not really flying but the graphics were of such unreal quality, you would swear you really went somewhere and honestly the first few times I flew the LM, I actually became a bit dizzy standing there.
They say those were the days because they really were.
I could not be more jealous right now as I hear you talk about standing on that platform on the simulator.
Thank you Fran for the time and sharing this great project with us. Got goosebumps a couple of times with some of the stills and you standing on the platform of the great pioneer heroes. Some of those housings 25:34, 28:29 looked like they were beryllium/copper alloys cast and machined which may have contributed to the weight but gave the strength and electrical properties needed? Can't wait to see how you are going to pull off the EL display, relays(?) and 160 matrix, let alone the amazing key pad. A real Pleasure and honored to watch this! Best of luck and skill. ~PJ
At about @19:20 and throughout the rest.
What a wonderful adventure,thank you for taking me with you in this vlog Fran!
-Came here from your most recent March 30 DSKY update.
Fascinating, as a vintage computer collector this is great. I look forward to seeing this in the public domain.
You are so, so fantastic! A hero, a leader, a legend. whether you accept this or not. Please keep going and being the awesome human that you are. I appreciate you greatly.
What amazing American craftsmanship. Makes me proud
Super amazing work! Frames are magnificent examples of NC (Numerical Control) machining, they were made from solid blocks. Programed onto punch tape by hand. Will be waiting with great anticipation for more installments!
Hi Fran ! Love your videos !! It must have been a bit of a disappointment to dismantle the DSKY and find that there were no real electronics hiding in there, that it was all ported. Thank you so much Fran. This is the best film ive ever seen on UA-cam.
I'm only 2/3rds of the way through the video but this awesome stuff. Your dedication to preserving and reproduction this part of our history is amazing.
I'm glad you got a little reward with the simulator! That was very cool.
You are like a kid in a candy store with those buttons and the fact that the computer history museum is getting the one you disassembled! Looking forward to the next video...
Thank you for sharing the only pictures I've seen of the German flying wing. I saw a documentary some time back where a replica was made and tested for stealth capabilities, but not once did they show the extant plane.
Hi Fran; this is really cool and it's so amazing you got to see the actual simulator they trained in! I'm an aerospace engineering student at Penn State and I was just doing some researching on the AGC and found your video. I had the honor of meeting Charlie Duke (Apollo 16 LMP) last year during his visit to PSU for our Lunar Lion mission that we are working on (lunarlion.psu.edu/) and it was arguably one of the most amazing moments of my life. He talked with us about what it was like to walk on the moon and drive the lunar rover around and I got my picture taken with him and his autograph. I had a distant relative who worked for NASA back in the early 60's and I'm lucky enough to also have Ed White's autograph in my collection of Apollo astronaut signatures. As you probably know, Ed White was one of the Apollo 1 astronauts who died in the fire. Glad you are caring for such an amazing piece of history! I wish more people from my generation found an interest in this stuff!
Fran, you have done an amazing job of sleuthing all the proper design criteria, I can see that you are also a perfectionist, nothing wrong with that, I am sure that you are getting a maximum of satisfaction executing this project. Back in 1992 I built a relay computer from chunky DPDT 24VDC ice cube relays. Boy it gave me goose bumps to hear it calculate a square root, There is something almost alchemical about doing one on one investigations into the science of the past. Lead to gold, water to wine, in antique truth there is more than just knowledge available to be tapped. Thanks you very much for sharing, take care and may you succeed in all of your pursuits. Luv 'ya kiddo BJ
Uh...what did you just say?
Very, very cool. There's a sense to this engineering that you feel the presence of the bygone designers and assemblers; as though their spirits exist within the fractals of those technology components.
Thank you.
You have GOT to write a book on this Fran! Thank you ma'am!
I loved this video. Your report of your visit was fascinating!
Fascinating. Time for me to start researching Apollo!
I do know a guy who worked on the Lunar Rover, that's a good place to start.
Just came across this video. The ENTIRE AGC weighs close to 70 lbs. The backplane section which contains the majority of the electronics weighs 35 pounds. I held and examined that 1/2 in New Jersey about 10 years ago. It had some of 1st ever made integrated circuits (logic gates). NASA had large quantities of these made, ran tests on the batches, and used the best to install in the backplane. Fascinating stuff. An equalivent of this entire system could be replacated in a fraction of the original weight. But such a computer at about 70lbs in the 1960's was incredible!
You have to get back on this project! Everybody is rooting for you if you do🥰
Fran is the ultrageek! Boy am I envious.
FRAN, im glad such an amazing lady has gotten to do such amazing things. You pushed buttons on a real DSKY. ! Totally Jelly!
Hi Fran
Was an enjoyable video. Make me feel good to hear and see the joy you have in your work.
Enjoy!!. To make a direct connected segments display to a connector via relays. Awesome. Best wishes.
Super interesting, thanks for sharing your photos and experiences!
Hi
Could you please upload those pictures from the DSKY to somewhere? :) There are no good pictures in the internet.
Thank you so much.
WOW. I'm floored. Thanks, Fran!!!! GO 229 sort of resembles SR-71 shape.
Great work Fran. Can't wait for the next stage of this project.
something that surprised me... I've been watching your videos for years, and I just now realized I've run into you before.
Damn! Nice job! It's actually kinda funny, because I spent most of a day last month trying to photograph the Block I DSKY displayed at Udvar-Hazy in order to resolve some questions about the mounting and interface with the rest of the console. Best of luck reproducing the EL display!
Holy Crips, I worked at Garber since 1990 in the restoration shops. My friend Karl is a good friend of mine. I can't believe they wouldn't let you film the place.
Wow!!! Impressive!! :) I have to admit I was overwhelmed with emotion a few times and kinda teared up (and I do not do that often).
"One small step for Fran". Nice one!
Fran... I love you... words fail... u r doing what i would love and only can dream of doing!!!
A truly wonderful introduction to your project. I look forward to catching up.
it is amazing how things have changed!
Fran you rock - very interesting segment on the DSKY
If you want to see inside the potted component modules without trying to dissolve the potting, you could request to do a CT scan of it. Low-power X-rays from a CT scanner are non-destructive, and will not harm the antique electronics. With the 3D slice data you could create a full-detail reconstruction of the hidden components.
over a quarter million subscribers Fran ! Go ! ❤
Thank you for all the great information supplied. I really enjoyed your video and dedication.
Wow! This is so so great! Just found your channel through Dave Jones and am absolutely loving your videos. Thank you so much!
This is so freaking cool! I love science and would be happy to know only a fraction of Fran! It's all so interesting. Thanks for sharing :-)
I'm very new to your channel this is only the third video I've watched. Very cool project, I could hear the excitement in your voice.
Excellent Fran. That was great.
Thanks
Carl
I had one of the EL night lights when I was a kid. Being a good little geek, it was impossible NOT to take it apart! :-) The exercise was not hugely enlightening, but I can tell you that the backplane was steel with the EL material fused to it. The front electrode was a transparent coating that was either painted on or fused on. I can't remember the details of the connection of the front electrode, but do remember a small insulated wire connecting it to the AC plug. Likewise I do not remember how the front was insulated, but I THINK it was just a transparent plastic sheet.
thank you for your time.
love the civil defence geiger counter in the background!
Awesome Fran, once in a lifetime stuff!
Would've been cool to power it up somehow. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us, Fran.
That's great Fran. I hope it all works out.
Fascinating story Fran, thanks for sharing
Thank you for all the wonderful information. I enjoyed it!
Thanks Fran, a fascinating description. The Apollo 11 landing was one of my earliest memories and so the whole program means a lot! To have stood where they stood, wow!
Woow....amazing!
I'm very glad that i found your channel. :)
Very interesting!
OMG, those photos are amazing!!!
WOW!! So jealous!! Your one step closer to the moon Fran!! I really enjoyed your Vlog. Very fascinating. I wonder why Sylvania chose a direction of current flow reversing 800 times per second at 250 volts? One of the best TVs I ever owned was manufactured by Sylvania in the 80s. If only they matched the 160 pin configuration, they could have avoided utlizing all the extra wiring. Great video. If you ever write a book, title it "Through the Eyes of Fran". Thanks for sharing your experience. ☺
I love the choice of 'font' on the original display. It's not like a typical 7 segment display. Very 'futuristic' looking despite being tech from yesteryear
There were actually 3 DSKYs on each Apollo mission. The Command Module had 2 (connected to the same AGC), while the LM had one for its AGC.
The picture you show at 8:02 is of the main control panel DSKY for the CM AGC. There was another DSKY in that space behind the main control panel (the “lower equipment bay”, I think it was called), which was big enough to “stand” (or at least stretch out) in. That’s where the navigator took star sightings.
I think you might find shots of that area in various TV documentaries from that era, posted here on UA-cam.
Very cool. Btw i like your old Civil Defense Geiger counter. I have one like that.
Superb project! Thanks Fran.
39:24 Seriously!
I have one of those nightlights. I figured it was older than me, but never knew it was *that* old. LOL
Holy, talk about the ultra super nerdy project! Pretty amazing tbh.
So is there a downloadable copy of that photo of the operating DSKY, or your aspect corrected version? My Googlefu is weak, as all I keep getting are the reproductions you mention.
FYI - the current RR Auction has an original Block II DSKY electroluminescent numeric side display up for bid. It is item #4148. The display is new, still sealed in the original packaging. This is the October 2018 auction.
Are the measurements you took on the panel (particularly the keyboard section) available online? I'm curious about the buttons themselves too.. what's the throw on the buttons, what force to push them, etc.
Wonderful to see this well done looking forward
to the next video so cool.
Your best work yet! You might want to look into 3D printing to reproduce some
of the parts as machining them would be very expensive, and it may be of interest
for your viewers to see 3D printing.
Hi Fran, love your channel....really interesting content!!
Thank you so much for sharing, and all of your hardwork.
Just discovered your channel, subscribed and look forward to seeing your vlogs.
Totally awesome Fran! Thanks!
This was amazing. So much neat information here!
Awesome project and dedication to the preservation of the old technology that most people have never heard of. I watch your channel every day. Love the projects.
You're one of the coolest people who have walked this planet, Fran! You rock! :)
Amazing video. I can't wait to see the finished product... Interesting bit of history, thanks for sharing.☺
Cosmosphere! Cool place. Been there a couple of times.
Fran, regarding hardware/fasteners. "Hex head screws" are actually socket head cap screws (SHCS). And "special bolts" are captive fasteners (can be captive nuts or captive screws). Not being critical, just passing on correct terminology for you and others.
What a superb and interesting project! Thanks for taking the time to put the blog together :-)
16:30 The DSKY project aside, this video is so fascinating. I always love your content.
Soooooo lucky! These units were a marvel of their time. I would give away all my extraneous organs for a chance to even just push a key one time.
Im so glad to find this video of yours Fran. Well documented experience like I was there too. Thanks for this experience!
I've often wondered about the Apollo computer seven segment displays. Interesting.
Such an awesome project, Fran. It's great to see someone who is so obviously enthusiastic about the research and discoveries you are making.
And when you described your conversation and thoughts when standing on the Apollo simulator, I got chills. Well played.
I love what your doing and how thorough your being about it. I love the engineering aspects behind it as well.