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Apollo Uplink Box Progress (Patreon)

Published:
2021-09-23 00:34:20
Imported:
2023-03

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https://youtu.be/nALBEotYQzs 


You might remember our mystery uplink command box that we got from Marcel, completely undocumented, full of weird modules and with some parts missing. Last time I posted about it, I had barely managed to manually trigger the paper tape reader. In the meantime, Ken has been using his mad reverse engineering skillz to figure out the box. 

Ken has several Twitter threads reporting his reverse engineering efforts, here is one of them:

https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1439306686372581379 

Last week we finally made enough progress that we were able to load a command from the tape. 

Marc


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Patreon update: Apollo uplink console progress

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Comments

Anonymous

Do you have docs on the commands available? If so, is there a link that points to them? BTW: Nice progress sleuthing....

curiousmarc
>>68394544

We have a good inkling of what they should be from a drawing that shows the bit patterns. Ken figured out the sub-bits by looking at schematics. We also have the uplink decoder that goes into the spaceship. Some commands flip about 100 relays around, some are for updating the clock. The most interesting ones are the ones that go into the AGC. You actually just send DSKY keystrokes!

Anonymous

Excellent. Will have to take a look at it when it's a good time :)