NASA Apollo Mission Simulators & Computer Control Company's DDP-224 Vintage Computer 3C NASA SPACE

090120 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Vintage 1960's: "Apollo Mission Simulators and Computer Control Company’s DDP-224 Computer." Through vintage photos and rare film clips, we explore NASA’s Apollo simulators and the 3C (Computer Control Company) minicomputer, the DDP-224. 3C was a pioneering computer company from 1952 until 1966, when it was acquired by Honeywell, Inc. The great work done by NASA personnel and by highly expert contractors from Computer Control Company and others, helped bring the U.S. into a leadership role in the early manned space program. ~ Compiled by Computer History Archives Project (CHAP). Editing: Victor Kaminsky; consultant: Mark Greenia.Show more

Index:
0:24 Title Slide
4:27 Apollo Simulators
8:57 DDP-224 and Computer Control Company (3C)
10:57 Acquisition, Summary, Acknowledgments
12:20 Image Gallery

With sincere thanks to:
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and
-National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

The 3C Legacy Project (by William Maddox)
an great collection of information and documentation on 3C
http://www.ddp116.org/

P3 Orion Top Secret (Todd Thomas)
DDP-224 Logic Boards photos, and much more
https://www.p3oriontopsecret.com/3c-computer-control-company-ddp-24-card-rack.html

Ed Thelen’s Apollo Guidance Computer page
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-mit-apollo-guidance.html
"A Fourth Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems"
1964; Weik; Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64.html

Gardner Hendrie, Computer Control Company (3C)
Designer of DDP-116, first 16 bit computer
Co-founder of Stratus Computer, Inc.

Jack Rathmell, Senior Systems Engineer
Computer Control Company (3C)
Project Manager Apollo Prelaunch Program

Julia Spitz, Milford Daily News, May 12, 2012
Article “Remembering the Computer Control Company”
https://www.milforddailynews.com/article/20120514/NEWS/305149951

Oral History – Dr. Louis Fein, May 1979, Palo Alto, California
(Pamela McCorduck, interviewer) Charles Babbage Institute
https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107284/oh015lf.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Dag Spicer, Senior Curator, the Computer History Museum
http://www.computerhistory.org

Adrian Wise, Honeywell Series 16 – History
http://www.series16.adrianwise.co.uk/

“Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience”
Making New Reality: Computers in Simulations and Image Processing
https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch9-2.html

Al Kosow’s Bitsavers Archive
http://www.bitsavers.org

S-PAC Instruction Manual: Supplementary Equipment
Honeywell Computer Control Division 1968; 414 pages
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/computerControlCompany/modules/130071175D_S-PAC_Supplement_Apr68.pdf

Reference Manual for the DPP-24 General Purpose Computer
Computer Control Corporation; 1963; 40 pages
http://bitsavers.trailing-ge.com/pdf/computerControlCompany/ddp-24/DDP-24_refMan_1963.pdf

Computer Control Company Reunion Web Site (good info and pics)

http://www.3creunion.com/

Additional Acknowledgements:
Opening Scene:
Star Field, courtesy of Josu Relax
“Stars in the Universe”
NASA Goddard Moon Images
Ambient Music; www.bensound.com
Compilation & Editing, Mark Greenia, CHAP.

This video is an independent study project, not directly affiliated with NASA.
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