COMPLETE NASA Apollo Saturn V KSC Launch Control RCA110A Computer Circuit Board - $185 - (Winter Park, FL)
COMPLETE NASA Apollo Saturn V KSC Launch Control RCA110A Computer Circuit Board * NASA Apollo Hardware * Saturn V, Kennedy Space Center, Launch Control Center Hardware, RCA 110A Vintage Computer, Complete Circuit Board. After the first successful flight of an Apollo-Saturn V Rocket, Wernher von Braun credited success "to our automatic checkout procedure." NASA's critical operations for the Apollo manned lunar missions included the launch control countdown support and equipment ground testing / acceptance checkout for each stage of the Saturn spacecraft and its associated systems. This automatic checkout was the responsibility of the ACE (Automatic Checkout Equipment or Acceptance Checkout Equipment) at Cape Canaveral's Launch Control Center. Through the use of computers, display consoles, and recording equipment, ACE provided an instantaneous, accurate method of spacecraft pre-flight testing. The "brain" of the ACE was the RCA 110A Saturn Ground Control Major Computer System. ACE relied on the 110A computer as its main constituent, directing the associated input / output equipment for these integrated system checkouts and launch control procedures. Through this process control system all Saturn stages are checked, and data from the engines, and I.U. (Instrument Unit) guidance, flight control, propellants, measurement and telemetry systems was provided. All test transmissions went through the RCA 110A computer; and if it failed, the entire checkout would stop. IBM wrote both the flight programs and the Saturn Operating System that ran on the RCA computers and executed ATOLL (Acceptance Test Or Launch Language) procedures. The RCA 110A provided a number of significant capabilities: Input / Output processing simultaneously, General purpose data processing and reduction, Ability of two RCA 110A's to work in tandem via data link, General purpose computing, Real-time control monitoring and testing of multiple digital and analog systems, and Versatile peripheral equip…
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