{"id":938,"date":"2009-07-21T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T18:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/?p=938"},"modified":"2009-07-21T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T18:46:25","slug":"an-incredible-degree-of-elegance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/an-incredible-degree-of-elegance\/","title":{"rendered":"An Incredible Degree of Elegance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/images\/apollocomputer.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Allowing for the identical Apollo guidance computer (AGC) in the Command Module (CM), containing a program called COLOSSUS, it is correct to say that <a href=\"http:\/\/klabs.org\/history\/apollo_11_alarms\/eyles_2004\/eyles_2004.htm\">we landed on the moon with 152 Kbytes of computer memory.<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That quote, and the link included in it, are from a paper by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doneyles.com\/\">Don Eyles<\/a>, introduced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/8148730.stm\">BBC<\/a> as &#8220;a 23-year-old self-described &#8216;beatnik&#8217; who had just graduated from Boston University and was set the task of programming the software for the Moon landing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These days it&#8217;s rare to find an <b>icon<\/b> that fits in 152 Kbytes of computer memory!!!  Those guys wrote all the software that got a spacecraft to the moon and back.<\/p>\n<p>I walk by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory every day&#8230; but today I have special respect for the kind of work those people did, and do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allowing for the identical Apollo guidance computer (AGC) in the Command Module (CM), containing a program called COLOSSUS, it is correct to say that we landed on the moon with 152 Kbytes of computer memory. That quote, and the link included in it, are from a paper by Don Eyles, introduced by the BBC as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,67,61,199,148,7,65,155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}