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"TacAN" wrote:

What still fascinates me about those early years - is the electronics, ie
computers that they used.
In the 1960's saw the first discrete transistors and maybe the very early
intergrated circuits.
By todays standards (or even what was becoming available in the 1980's) the
computer power may have been fairly "primitive". Which makes their
achievements all the more spectacular.

Graham

I watched it on TV at a party set up especially for it -- in Huntsville,
AL, where I worked for Boeing, designing translunar flight trajectories.

I remember the JFK assassination, too. I was working for Douglas, in
Culver City, CA and worked with a Texan, whose thoughts were,
"Manchurian Candidate," where LBJ cradled JFK's mortally wounded head in
his lap.