Thalia Archibald on Nostr: With the renewed attention on the Apollo Guidance Computer, I'll share some photos ...

With the renewed attention on the Apollo Guidance Computer, I'll share some photos from a presentation I gave a couple of years ago on software documentation, featuring its source code.

The engineers who wrote the software that got astronauts onto the moon sure had a sense of whimsy!

Sources:
Archival scans: https://archive.org/details/Luminary99001J2k60
B/W scans: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ScansForConversion/Luminary099/
Transcriptions: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
Photo sources in alt text.

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