Apollo Comms Part 9: Mystery Up-Data Link Test Set

Marcel rescued a mystery box from the scrapper. Says "Up-Data" on it, we think it's from the Apollo program. Can Master Ken figure out what it is? More videos on the Apollo Up-data box: Sending Apollo Commands with the Up-data box:    • Apollo Comms Part 14: Reverse Engineering ...   Reimplementing the missing analog parts:    • Apollo Comms Part 18: Solving the mystery ...   Apollo Comms Playlist:    • Apollo Comms Part 1: Opening the S-Band Tr...   Fran's video on the edge-lit display:    • Super Rare KGM Edgelit Displays!!!  Just B...   Links to doc: https://www.curiousmarc.com/space/apo... https://virtualagc.github.io/virtuala... https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ Our sponsors PCBWay: fast turn PCBs, https://www.pcbway.com Keysight: test instruments: https://www.keysight.com Samtec: connectors: https://www.samtec.com Support the team on Patreon:   / curiousmarc   Buy shirts on Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/curiousm... Learn more on the companion site: https://www.curiousmarc.com Contact info: https://www.youtube.com/curiousmarc/a... 00:00 Recap of previous episodes 01:12 How Marcel found the up-data box 02:29 Ken's overall functional description 04:15 Edge illuminated displays 05:23 Mysterious Motorola modules 06:52 Missing components 08:10 Initial power up attempts 10:05 Repairing the paper tape reader 12:11 Tally tape reader demo 13:26 First instrumented tests 16:23 We are missing a clock 18:30 Control tape encoding scheme 20:12 First tape reads 23:05 Reading in the correct digits! 25:10 Next steps