@CuriousMarc

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SpaceX Dragon capsule flying by my house this morning. I waved and they waved back 😅 https://youtu.be/6DZIp4GbmDk
SpaceX Dragon Reentry Jan 15 12:35 am seen from Menlo Park, CA

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The MUD microwave hams really make incredible Rube-Golbergish contraptions! Really high frequencies too, above 100 GHz. Worthy of top hackaday posts.
Lots of beautiful consoles with Twist-Lites and Roto-tellites, like the NASA Apollo control panels (Titan II museum)
@tubetime One needs to turn on “branch tracing” bit with the “slow”, two cycles bit option also. It adds extra bus sequences with messages that clue in the inverse assembler on what’s going on. Also slows execution to a crawl.
You need a functioning paper tape reader to nuke your enemy (Titan II museum).
More scary but impressive Titan II.
Temporarily escaped from the microwave conf to see the nearby Titan II museum. Fortunately most of these ended up sending satellites instead of nukes.

@tubetime Oh I spot a Logic Agonizer!

BTW I found out why it wouldn’t inverse assemble. It needs a debug bit to be turned on in one of the Pentium debug registers. Only accessible through the debug port, not sure how without the unobtainium HP “emulator probe”.

Short notice heads up, I’m the invited speaker for this year’s Microwave Update event (MUD 2025), and will give a talk on the Apollo comms system on Saturday evening (10/18/2025). Come say hi if you are in the neighborhood. It’s starting good, with absolutely giant cactus right out of the airport!
@tubetime It’s a manual die bonder controller.