[OT] We Choose The Moon

[Ben Scott]

  Holy crap, my post was full of errors.  That should teach me to
write tech stuff before caffeine.  (It won't, but it should.)

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Ben Scott<dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>  LUMINARY is the main program for the LM (Lunar Modular, the lander).

s/Lunar Modular/Lunar Module/

>  Both the CM and the CM had an AGC

s/the CM and the CM/the CM and the LM/

>  The RAM was 2 Ki (2048) words.  Each word was 16 bits -- 15 data
> bits plus a parity bit.  16 KiB in today's nomenclature.  The ROM was
> 36 Ki words (36,864 KiB today).

  2048 words = 4096 modern bytes (4 KiB)

  36 Ki words = 73,728 modern bytes (72 KiB)

-- Ben