[cgbg]

Interesting article on the Apollo command module and lunar module computers:

(you may want to sit down first... :-) )

https://www.aulis.com/pascal.htm

[GOPJ]

With a DSKY unit which was not working correctly, the AGC definitely appears to be a complete fake. But if this Apollo Guidance Computer was a joke it was because the engineers intended it to be so, and not because they were incompetent. The engineers placed incoherence absolutely everywhere. All the electronic interfaces were stuffed with intentional errors. Xavier Pascal

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