July 4th, 2024

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code

The GitHub URL offers the Apollo 11 project source code categorized into sections like INFORMATION, COMERASE, COMAID, COMEKISS, TROUBLE, TVCDAPS, CHIEFTAN, and MISCELLANEOUS, each containing specific source files. Request specific files or sections as needed.

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Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code

The GitHub URL provided contains the source code for the Apollo 11 project, organized into sections like INFORMATION, COMERASE, COMAID, COMEKISS, TROUBLE, TVCDAPS, CHIEFTAN, and MISCELLANEOUS. Each section comprises various source files with page number ranges for content within each file. If you need access to a particular source file or section from the Apollo 11 project, feel free to specify your request.

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By @pomian - 8 months
Another chance to recommend a book that I learnt about from HN: I highly recommend the book, Sunburst and Luminary; http://www.sunburstandluminary.com/SLhome.html

A technical pleasure and also very good glimpse into the Apollo team - working together, to land on the moon. It is a fun easy read, written by the fellow in charge of programming the guidance computer on the lunar lander. It is also a great snapshot of that time in history, the excitement of Apollo, and with the frustration of the Vietnam war going on, some protests, etc. Just a hint - the main programmer, was an English major, and his use of the right words, were a key factor in the success of of creating an efficient and effective computer language