1960's Sperry Rand Univac NASA Apollo Computer History 1230, 494, NASCOM, IBM, Australia, Unisys

160719 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are. NASA, Computers Apollo: Through vintage photos & film clips, we take a brief look at Sperry Rand computers supporting NASA’s Apollo program. Shown are UNIVAC 1218, 1230, 490, 494 and others of that time. For those who worked in this area, hopefully this will bring back some fond memories. Special Thanks go to:
Tony Buglione, Corporate Media, Unisys Archives
NASA Archives; US Air Force Archives; US Navy Archives
Lynsey Sczechowicz, A/V Archivist Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE 19807
Colin Mackellar, http://www.HoneysuckleCreek.net (Australia tracking site)
Bob Burns, http://www.HoneysuckleCreek.net
VIP Club Information Technology Pioneers - http://www.VIPclubmn.org
Ed Thelen's computer site - http://www.ed-thelen.org/
David Melvin, Professional Narration
Jeff Quitney, vintage videos restoration

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Recommended sites and Videos:

Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, great information on the history of Australia's role in NASA Apollo tracking and communications, and much more.
https://www.honeysucklecreek.net/

VIP Club. -Members are retirees, former employees, spouses, and retirement eligible employees of Unisys, Lockheed Martin (LMCO), and their Twin Cities legacy companies. A great site for technical and personal stories, systems, computers and more.
http://vipclubmn.org/

Some good vintage source material can be found here:

Proceedings of the Apollo Unified S-Band Technical Conference,
Goddard Space Flight Center, July 1965 (312 pages, good info, slow to load the document)
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19650025875.pdf

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/NASA-SP-87.pdf

“NASCOM On-Line Data-Switching System”
W. Hahn; Z. Hendel, NASA Communications Division (15 pages) (1966),
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19680003956.pdf

Handbook for Apollo Instrumentation Ships, NASA, 1968, 93 pages
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/MG-402-Ships-Manual-OCR.pdf
Histories of the Space Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN),
The Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN), and the NASA Communications Network (NASCOM); William R. Corliss, June 1974; 358 pages (an excellent reference; a bit slow to load)
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19750002909.pdf

“The Use of a UNIVAC 490 As a Real-Time Message Switching Unit”, R.H. Plaumann, Teletype Systems Manager, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center (1964) (Archive.org)
https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19650019775

Two very interesting videos: * * *
Partners in Space - Department Of Supply - 1965 opening of Tidbinbilla Tracking Station, Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk3Vzt-hzfE

1956 UNIVAC Scientific Computer 1103A - Government Computer by Sperry Rand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-GAncrdtM0
https://rumblevideoarchive.wordpress.com/