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Richard, I hope you don't mind me using your quote...
<snipped discussion of junior programmer and temp sensor application)
> One of the beauties of the RCX is that you have a fixed resource
> with which
> to solve your
> problem and it is not rich in what it has. If you compare it to what was
> used in the lunar lander
> however it looks like a super computer 8*) the programmers in the
> late 60's
> really could pack
> a lot of functionality into an improbably small amount of space.
Yesss! I am going to tie the moon mission into my panel presentation
at Mindfest. Here's a source I used on the Apollo Mission Computers...
Just scan the page for "memory" or some other likely computer term to
find the section on the CPU specs. It's almost funny!
<http://home.wxs.nl/~faase009/Ha_Apollo.html>
Have fun....
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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