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Friday, August 29, 2025
A lunar landing with 1202 and 1201 alarms
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@Mark Ollig The Block II Apollo Guidance Computer, or AGC, operated on all crewed Apollo flights from Apollo 7 in 1968 through Apollo 17 in ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025
A telephone office visit ‘ringing’ with nostalgia
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@ Mark Ollig Upon entering the Winsted Telephone Company office a few weeks ago, now operated by TDS Telecom, I was greeted by an atmosphere...
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Looking at Winsted’s early telephone network
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@ Mark Ollig Established in 1871, the Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission initially regulated railroads, set rates, oversaw grain wa...
Friday, August 8, 2025
Harvard Mark I: the dawn of modern computing
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@Mark Ollig In 1937, Harvard University physicist Howard H. Aiken envisioned a powerful electromechanical calculating machine to solve compl...
Friday, August 1, 2025
Surveyor 5’s ‘giant leap’ for Apollo
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@Mark Ollig The mission of the Surveyor 5 lunar spacecraft began at 3:57 a.m. EDT Sept. 8, 1967. It lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Launch ...
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