Giants win, Niners lose, and I touched something that went to the Moon.

[gridlore]

• How was your Sunday?


• Going in reverse order, johnnyeponymous sent out a call for people to be interviewed. I volunteered. We agreed to meet today at his place of work.


• He works at one of the most awesome places on Earth.


• C'mon, they have a working Difference Engine!


• I got the grand tour. Since much of the museum is closed for renovations, this meant a lot of areas not accessible to the public.


• Including the storerooms. Holy crap.


• isomeme, they have a Vax. They have the Pong prototype. They have so many Cray supercomputers they've turned one into a couch.


• Box after amazing box. And on one shelf, boxes containing the LM flight computer from Apollo 12.


• I got to touch it. Geekgasm!


• What else... Google's very first server, a ticker-tape machine from circa 1890, a Univac control station.. it was overwhelming.


• The actual interview was about gaming, and went very well.


• Luckily, I was missing the 49ers get pounded into snail snot for the third week in a row.


• Can we just declare this season done?


• But my Giants? A complete game from Matt Cain leads to a 4-2 victory over the rapidly deflating Colorado Rockies.


• Atlanta lost, and the Padres are down 12-2 to the Reds in the 9th, so it looks like our magic number is going to drop big time, and we'll be in the lead for the Wild Card should that be required.


• Need to do laundry now.


• I touched something that went to the Moon.

Comments

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

O.O

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

I think that was more likely the CM flight computer; no LMs have been recovered after flight.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Based on what I've read, pieces of the LM were removed and brought back.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

I don't see why they would have brought anything back they didn't absolutely have to. They were severely limited in mass terms; the camera films and the Lunar material samples were pretty much the only things in the Command Module capsule apart from the crew themselves when it splashed down after a trip to the Moon.

The Lunar Module flight control computer was assembled from components with the program built-in, not written as we would understand it today, more like a diode logic array. As I recall MIT who were the subcontractors built several prototypes before the "production" units. The unit you saw was probably one of those or possibly a production unit that was never used after the program wqs cancelled.

[eleri.livejournal.com]

I have a Vax, too!

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

And yours is fully functional. (g,d,&rlh)

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

geekenvy....

on football

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

Please don't hate me for rooting for a better team than yours this year. We have sucked for so long.
If you want, I'll take photos at the game (season tickets lower corner end zone) and send you some good Niner shots...

...if there are any. *ouch*

The guy next to me is a niner fan and his gf is a die hard Dallas fan (I was born/raised in Dallas, so I've felt the pain of niner wins in the past).

FWIW, I detest the Braves; actually, I don't like baseball much at all, nor pro b-ball.

My Sunday? Having steady heart stoppers watching the Saints game.