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Apollo Guidance Computer Part 24: the restored AGC does Moon landings in front of its creators

CuriousMarc 132,808 6 years ago
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Our AGC is restored just in time for the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing. It goes on tour, featured at several celebration events on the East Coast, where it meets some of its original creators. And we fly Apollo 11 Moon landings with it. Some relevant links: Playlist of the restoration series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb59FWrLZfdlisi_x7-Ut_-w7 Block I AGC period documentary: https://youtu.be/ndvmFlg1WmE Inertial navigation system documentary: https://youtu.be/wD97RSpiZe0 Schematics: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/links.html#AGC_electrical_schematics and: https://archive.org/details/agc_handbook_jp2 Mike's AGC backplane viewer: http://apolloguidance.computer/2003100_071/pins AGC software repo: https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk: https://youtu.be/xx7Lfh5SKUQ

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