Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 90% confidenceOfficial museum lecture on primary-source engineering history from people who study and restore the hardware.
What you'll learn
A talk at The National Museum of Computing on the design of the Apollo Guidance Computer: core rope memory, the instruction set and the 1202 alarms.
Video by TNMoC, played through YouTube's embedded player.
Part of TNMOC Talks
Go deeper
- A Man on the Moon, Andrew ChaikinAndrew Chaikin's definitive account of the Apollo missions
- Digital Apollo, David MindellHow the Apollo guidance computer and astronauts shared control
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