July 22, 2009
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Guest question from udupendra. Thanks sire!
If you were using this, what would your likely destination be?
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Answer:udupendra says
The Moon.
This is the user interface of the ‘Apollo Guidance Computer’ built by MIT. The user interface was called ‘Dsky’ (pronounced ‘dis-key’, and short for ‘dis’play and ‘key’board) and was used by the Command Module to control navigation of the Apollo spacecraft.


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July 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248310856 )
The Moon.
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:15 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248315317 )
The Moon.
This is the user interface of the ‘Apollo Guidance Computer’ built by MIT. The user interface was called ‘Dsky’ (pronounced ‘dis-key’, and short for ‘dis’play and ‘key’board) and was used by the Command Module to control navigation of the Apollo spacecraft.
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:50 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248317428 )
It is the DSKY used on board the Appolo
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:47 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248324456 )
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July 23rd, 2009 at 5:08 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248325709 )
Apollo Guidance Computer…
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:20 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248337248 )
The Apollo computer interface box installed in the NASA F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire test aircraft….Straight from NASA website
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:28 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248337726 )
The moon.
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:56 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248339360 )
Dryden
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:22 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248340949 )
This was the display/keypad system on the Apollo spacecraft.
So, Destination Moon….
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:36 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248345366 )
This is the Apollo 11 computer interface box. So id guess ud be heading to the moon :)..The gimbal lock gave it away
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:24 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248348271 )
In some Apollo program ,trying to land on moon maybe…
The above picture is of display and keyboard interface(dsky) of an apollo guidance Computer.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:01 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1248350505 )
This is the Apollo display and keyboard unit (DSKY) used for fly-by-wire. So I guess the likely destination is Moon. Actually, it could be to nowhere too… in case of a simulation. :P.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:30 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1248352208 )
the destination would be moon.this is a Display and Keyboard assembly(DSKY) used on the onboard computers of apollo spacecrafts
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:25 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1248380704 )
The Moon?
This looks like the DSKY. Quoting some random website..
The DSKY is the “display/keyboard” used by the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). The DSKY provided only a means to input keyboard data to the AGC, or to display visual information at command of the AGC, and therefore had little or no functionality of its own, when considered as a stand-alone device. The DSKY was used in both the Command Module and the Lunar Module.
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:24 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1248384279 )
The Apollo computer interface box. Destination Moon.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:34 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248395691 )
Moon
July 24th, 2009 at 1:58 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248400694 )
The Apollo computer interface box installed in the NASA F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire test aircraft. (NASA Photo EC96-43408-1)
July 24th, 2009 at 2:14 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248401688 )
moon
July 24th, 2009 at 3:53 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248407594 )
The moon.
Moon/Space fixation intended?
July 24th, 2009 at 8:38 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1248467882 )
DSKY, so the moon.
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/yaDSKY.html
The DSKY is the “display/keyboard” (DSKY) used by the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). The DSKY provided only a means to input keyboard data to the AGC, or to display visual information at command of the AGC, and therefore had little or no functionality of its own, when considered as a stand-alone device.
The DSKY may seem somewhat familiar from, for example, the movie Apollo 13. In the HBO mini-series, From the Earth to the Moon, the DSKY appears so prominently that it almost becomes another character (dramatically speaking). For those of us who are familiar with it from these sources, it is easy to think of the DSKY itself as being the computer. However, the DSKY really was quite independent from the AGC. From the computer’s standpoint, the DSKY was just another few i/o channels, more or less, as in the block diagram below.
July 25th, 2009 at 9:32 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248514360 )
Moon
July 25th, 2009 at 11:14 am, GMT +0000 ( 1248520451 )
Teh moon.
Apollo computer Dsky user interface unit.