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Take a look at these NASA Apollo Mission Control Console close-up view displays.
TimFox:
I remember a cheap sci-fi movie from the '50s, where the crew of a rocketship traveling to Mars or somewhere smoked inside the spacecraft. Indoors!
VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on April 02, 2021, 07:25:09 pm ---That's really cool. Crazy to think it was the 70's. They were really ahead of their time.
At 8:45 that ashtray is a nice touch. Imagine the uproar now days if someone tried to light up a cigarette in middle of a space mission, indoors. :-DD
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In my early IBM career, key decisions were made at meetings filled with thick cigarette smoke from addicts. You could always tell a VDU from a smoker's desk. The EHT area as well as the front of the CRTs had a layer of tar. TVs in homes of smokers also suffered the same.
By the way, my PC has a more powerful CPU than that of the four IBM System 360s they mention in the video. Maybe even my mobile telephone too. We have come a long way.
SeanB:
In the early days of stock exchanges the video displays were all driven using analogue video delivered over coax cable. However the video signal was merely there to deliver a blank screen, the actual data was done using TELETEXT decoder chipsets in the TV sets, with each page being assigned to different types of display. This gave a very robust data transfer, yet the actual hardware itself was simple enough and available off the shelf, and you could select any page at any time, and it would come up in sequence. The only change they did to the text standard was to use the entire frame of video to handle text, not just the top 3 lines of the screen normally blanked by the retrace circuit, so that they could transmit the entire 1000 page magazine very rapidly.
These days I doubt you can find a TV set that actually still has a text decoder on the analogue video inputs any more, but there were both Phillips, Nokia and ITT chipsets that implemented this in a set, with various levels of how cooking hot they ran, and how often they would fail in use.
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: Tomorokoshi on March 28, 2021, 07:20:03 pm ---What gets me is that it took them only 2 years to put it into operation. And they didn't even have the benefit of Agile.
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Yes with Agile, probably 5 years into the project management would decide that they gonna land on Venus actually, and start gathering user stories to what to do there.
But they already launched the rocket 1 years into the project saying they will figure out the rest later. Crew was onboard, oxigen wasn't. No matter, they made a bug report ticket saying oxigen is a "must" for the crew.
gnuarm:
--- Quote from: TimFox on April 02, 2021, 10:45:00 pm ---I remember a cheap sci-fi movie from the '50s, where the crew of a rocketship traveling to Mars or somewhere smoked inside the spacecraft. Indoors!
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I would not be surprised if they smoked in their space suits. Flicking the ash off would be difficult. Then I guess they'd have to eat the butt.
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