The AGC: Looking Back at the Computer That Took Humanity to the Moon
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A historical-technical look at the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC): its design, the hardware and software roles it performed during lunar missions, and the engineering constraints and technologies available to 1960s engineers. The talk also covers technological advances required to reach the Moon and the AGC’s legacy, particularly for software engineering.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00AGC introduction
- 11:02AGC hardware
- 21:48AGC software
- 29:09AGC user interface
- 36:29Critical incidents
- 42:06Apollo’s legacy
- 45:35Conclusion
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