Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) source code published on Github

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Original Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) source code digitized by folks at Virtual AGC and MIT Museum.

Github repository:
https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

References:

• http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/)
• https://hackaday.com/2016/07/05/don-eyles-walks-us-through-the-lunar-module-source-code/
• http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html

To make any sense of this, you'll probably also want a copy of this:

 

[ɹǝuuᴉM]

Fix the title please. Is 11 not 1

 

[The_Librarian]

Geeks gonna geek

 

[The_Librarian]

Very, very impressive.

Just keep in mind that today we have ready-to-use libraries, examples and so on to assist in coding - but they had nothing, and yet they created something that worked. Unlike Windows.

 

[Beachless]

I see the what language it should be rewritten in argument already started.

 

[geezer]

When I started to work at my current employer in 1983 we had a magnetic sector mass spectrometer, built by the Consolidated Engineering Corporation. It was first put into service in 1954 and was in daily use until 1998! Later on it had a custom built computer, which was designed and built by the CSIR in the late 70s. They also did the programming on it. It did very complex regression calculations, fitted mass fragmentation patters from calibrations and calculated analysis results from gas samples containing H2, CO, CO2, N2, Argon and C1 - C6 saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons. This was done on 8k fixed memory and 8k RAM!

 

[gregmcc]

Very impressive. Amazing what they coud accomplish with what they had. Now you could probably run it on a Arduino

 

[Archvile]

I do enjoy some of the quirkier pull requests, like this one that adds a Routine for picking up Matt Damon. Unsurprisingly the issue was closed. :crylaugh: