Pasture Adventure, Dogs

Awareness of the outside world. NASA.gov: July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind

Discussion comment by Brian Scott Pauls, a classmate in my science fiction class. Reposted with permission. [Blanket Adjustment, announcement of class]

“Punch cards are not, and never were, suitable for sending people to Mars or any other celestial body. They are, in fact, so *un*suitable, MIT was forced to develop the contemporary microcomputer to send us to the Moon–complete with keyboard, display, and electronic read-only memory (all necessary for doing away with punch cards).

“And far from being a one-person job, programming the computer for the Apollo mission required a staff of 350, managed by Margaret Hamilton.”

Pauls recommends, Nicely Done Sites: The Computer That Got Us To The Moon, by Boyd.

Pauls posts at Substack: The Cosmic Codex. Previous BSP mention [Stall Rest Chronicles 27 Jan, In other News]

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Took the ladies out to the pasture for a sniff.