Reverse-Engineering the Globus Ink, a Soviet Spaceflight Navigation Computer (2023)
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The article reverse-engineers the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer, and the discussion praises the author's work and requests more similar analyses.
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My pet peeve is that even at Antikythera times they could have, if they had knowledge, built electronic devices - copper wire needle contact with crystalized molten sand gives you a diode junction, add a wire - transistor, and leather, brine, copper disks - electricity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35311300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45010658
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