Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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switch to the ON position but to turn tie a .0.
power to ACME,which was going to power down the
computer whether we wanted it to or not . It
was a voice relay station but we weren't getting
the voine relayed.
We were just getting a message
sent up from somebody on the g~ound.
I 'm quite
sure we didn't have any controllers at Tananarive .
I don't r eally know who was talking to me .
Probably
SOUlf-! COM TECH , So• not being able to discuss the
thi.ng with them and not knowing what the status
of my total electrical p,wer was at the tim.,, I
went ahead and t·..1.r.ned them off. The comp light
or the malfunction light came on and then it sort
got dim H,nd wen-f: 1)ut. Then I sort of figured that• s
the end of the ACPU.
So we put the thing back
on over Carnarvon and back off again and it
woul dn't come on. It was dead,of course .
So
that's the life story of the computer.
Then we
played a lot of games afterward trying to ml'l.kc~
..
a dead man come back to lifA.
I have nothing
else on the computer.
I sure wished I'd have
had it though.
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