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  "IBM Mobile Room Lends Flexibility to Apollo Saturn Unit Fabrication."

  This article was published in the April 1967 issue of Contamination Control, Volume VI, Number 4. States: "The extreme sensitivity of critical parts in the Apollo /Saturn Instrument Unit (IU) has demanded unique clean room techniques by International Business Machines Corporation."
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  "Improving the Uprated Saturn I."

  This paper discusses five improved versions of the Uprated Saturn I that were studied by the Chrysler Corporation Space Division, supported by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation.
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  "Information About Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Florida Research and Development Center."

  A history of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Florida Research and Development Center.
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  "Initial phase of new space station study are underway."

  A news article detailing the new space station project.
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  "Inspection of Welds on S-II-1."

  Archive copy is a poor photocopy. Cannot read.
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  "Instrument Unit in Crucial Test."

  A three-foot high Instrument tional Business Machines Corporation will be launched into orbit with a huge Saturn second stage
  later this month in a crucial test for the Apollo lunar program.
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  "Instrument Unit Program Review : Saturn Instrument Unit."

  Handwritten names and phone numbers on the first page. Apollo / Saturn Team.
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  "Instrument Unit to Navigate Saturn IB's First Flight.".

  Within the first 10 minutes of NASA's initial Saturn IB flight, the Instrument Unit (IU), nervecenter of America's mightiest launch vehicle, is designed to make more than 7 million calculations, sample vehicle calculations 100 times a minute, telemeter 3 million numbers back to Earth, and measure the performance of 300 pieces of equipment in the IU, S-IB, and S-IVB stages.
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  "Instrumentation Programming for Computer Controlled Digital Data Processing."

  A number of considerations are necessary in instrumentation programming, many of which are either not applicable or applicable to a lesser degree in other types of programming. This paper discusses these problems in general terms and illustrates how they have been dealt with specifically. The latter is done by describing the programming and operation of a data reduction system.
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  "Interface Control Document Definition of Saturn SA-507 Flight Sequence Program."

  The purpose of this document is to define the flight sequence events, time bases, stage switch selector channel assignments, LVDA Discrete Outputs, Inputs and Interrupts for the Saturn SA-507 & Subs vehicles. Special requirements and restrictions defined in this document will be imposed on the Marshall Space Flight Center and its contractors as applicable, to insure the proper functioning of the equipment in the various stages for required vehicle timing and sequencing to occur as outlined in this Interface Control Document (ICD).