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Apollo Computer — United States: 1980: 1989: Acquired by Hewlett-Packard: Apparat, Inc. — United States: 1978: 1988: Dissolution: Apricot Computers — United Kingdom: 1965: 1999: Dissolution: Ardent Computer — United States: 1985: 1989: Merged with Stellar Computer to form Stardent Inc. AST Research: Samsung Electronics (1997–1999 ...
Apollo Computer Inc., founded in 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer) and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems , Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s.
Astronauts manually flew Project Gemini with control sticks, but computers flew most of Project Apollo except briefly during lunar landings. [6] Each Moon flight carried two AGCs, one each in the command module and the Apollo Lunar Module, with the exception of Apollo 7 which was an Earth orbit mission and Apollo 8 which did not need a lunar module for its lunar orbit mission.
Apollo/Domain is a series of workstations that were developed and produced by Apollo Computer from c. 1980 to 1989. The machines were built around the Motorola 68k series of processors, except for the DN10000, which has from one to four of Apollo's RISC processors, named PRISM .
Telenor ASA (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈtêːlənuːr] or [tɛləˈnuːr]) [2] is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company ...
Core rope memory is a form of read-only memory (ROM) for computers.It was used in the UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) and the UNIVAC II, developed by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in the 1950s, as it was a popular technology for program and data storage in that era.
Telnor, or Teléfonos del Noroeste ("Telephones of the Northwest") is a company providing telephone and internet services since 1981 (DSL through Prodigy and E1).It operates in the Mexican states of Baja California and part of the northwest of Sonora, It is part of América Móvil Telecom, which is owned by billionaire Carlos Slim.
Apollo Command Module primary guidance system components Apollo Lunar Module primary guidance system components Apollo Inertial Measurement Unit. The Apollo primary guidance, navigation, and control system (PGNCS, pronounced pings) was a self-contained inertial guidance system that allowed Apollo spacecraft to carry out their missions when communications with Earth were interrupted, either as ...