Apollo Guidance Computer Talk

I kind of never thought too much about the moon landing until SpaceX hype and the book The Martian got me interested in the skies. Someone here recently posted <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firstmenonthemoon.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firstmenonthemoon.com&#x2F;</a> which is a collection of video, audio, and data streams synced in real time of the landing. It&#x27;s so exhilarating and amazing. And it was the 60s! It was just so rock and roll, an incredible feat.

For those interested in the AGC development history, I highly recommend “Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight” by David Mindell.

This interview on omega tau is pretty interesting also. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;traffic.libsyn.com&#x2F;omegataupodcast&#x2F;omegatau-167-theApolloGuidanceComputer.mp3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;traffic.libsyn.com&#x2F;omegataupodcast&#x2F;omegatau-167-theAp...</a>

A not so inspiring talk about a very inspiring topic. A much better talk about the Apollo guidance computer was held at Code Mesh London 2015:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xY45YE7ggng" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xY45YE7ggng</a>

So the first minutes of the 2 guys doing the talk is just them speed-reading what sounds like a Wikipedia entry.<p>I skipped ahead and it didn&#x27;t get better, they sound like TAs reading lecture notes.

There is a small mistake in the talk: they say all the AGCs are either crashed onto the earth, crashed onto the moon, not flown, or returned (and in museums). There is still one AGC out there in space: the lunar module for Apollo 10 was put into orbit around the Sun.

Offtopic question: anybody knows what kind of software they might have used to build their slides? Some of the animations are really neat.

Anything by Michael Steil is well worth watching, but hold on to your hat. I highly recommend his Ultimate Gameboy talk as well.