This 1960’s Computer is NUCLEAR!

Seriously, no joke, my jaw dropped when we decoded our first string from this 1963 LGP-21 computer. It started life at Los Alamos National Labs and believe you me, that’s no lie! In the previous episode, we did a full memory dump, so let’s take a look at what we rescued and you’ll see what I’m on about! If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon:   / usagielectric   Join us on Twitch Friday nights at 2130 CST:   / usagielectric   Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale! https://my-store-11554688.creator-spr... Come join us on Discord! Discord:   / discord   Thanks for watching! Chapters 0:00 Welcome back to the LGP-21 1:43 How do we even read the machine code? 4:26 Decoding our first string 8:12 Sodium Molten… are you kidding me?! 8:57 A journey in the madness of the UHTREX of the loop experiment 12:49 Can we fix the four tracks that came back as all 0? (CM) 15:00 Testing the diodes and coils 18:15 Big oof 19:28 Testing the spare tracks 21:10 Great, the Flexowriter is misbehaving again… 25:44 The disk is fully functional again, what next? 27:05 Veggie time!