Apollo Guidance Computer

The Apollo Guidance Computer was used onboard the Apollo spacecraft to support the Apollo moon landings between 1969 and 1972. This talk explains everything about the AGC, including its quirky but clever hardware design, its revolutionary OS, and how its software allowed humans to reach and explore the moon. ccc

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The AGC and its DSKY user interface were developed in the early 1960s for the Apollo program by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and first flew in 1966. The AGC was one of the first integrated circuit-based computers. The computer's performance was comparable to the first generation of home computers. wikipedia

Moonjs is an online Apollo Guidance Computer simulator. It is a port of Virtual AGC by Ronald Burkey from C to javascript/asm.js using the Emscripten compiler. site