Ottawa PC Users’ Group monthly meeting – Computers to the Moon

The Ottawa PC Users’ Group will be hosting their monthly general meeting through video-conference. The topic for Wednesday,  May 14th is “Computers to the Moon“.

How did the United States manage to get to the moon in the 1960s at a time when PCs didn’t exist and computers were the size of a small warehouse? Computers to the Moon tells the story of the monumental effort to create a computer capable of landing a spacecraft on the moon. Today we tend to believe that computers back then were primitive playthings, but it turns out that ingenious, driven engineers and software developers, even half a century ago, could accomplish amazing things. In Computers to the Moon, you’ll learn what they created and how it worked.

The speaker, Mark Schulman has spent his career as a computer instructor, software designer, and small business owner. He has taught a wide range of programming courses for major corporations and worked on large software development projects. He is currently the IT manager for a group of family practice physicians. His major geek interest these days is the computer technology that brought about the moon landings in the 1960s. He lives near Orlando, Florida.