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    The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module (CM)...
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    The Apollo Abort Guidance System (AGS, also known as Abort Guidance Section) was a backup computer system providing an abort capability in the event of...
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    Core rope memory (category Computer memory)
    used in the 1960s by early NASA Mars space probes and then in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), which was built by Raytheon. The software for the AGC was...
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    Apollo primary guidance, navigation, and control system (PGNCS, pronounced pings) was a self-contained inertial guidance system that allowed Apollo spacecraft...
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    The Gemini Guidance Computer (sometimes Gemini Spacecraft On-Board Computer, OBC) was a digital, serial computer designed for Project Gemini, America's...
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    Eldon C. Hall (category American computer scientists)
    Eldon Hall was the leader of hardware design efforts for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) at MIT, and advocated the use of integrated circuits for this...
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    Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) (category Apollo program)
    development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program. She later founded two software companies, Higher...
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    testing began, but a planned burn was aborted automatically when the Apollo Guidance Computer detected the craft was not going as fast as planned. Flight Director...
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    the Apollo Guidance Computer, developed ca. 1965 by Charles Stark Draper at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. At the project's inception, the Apollo guidance...
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    Draper Laboratory (category Apollo program)
    laboratory is best known for developing the Apollo Guidance Computer, the first silicon integrated circuit-based computer. It was renamed for its founder in 1970...
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  • Stealth (2005) Apollo 13 (1995) Apollo Guidance Computer RocketMan (1997) From the Earth to the Moon (1998, TV miniseries) Apollo Guidance Computer Ghost in...
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  • Resistor–transistor logic (category Apollo program hardware)
    monolithic integrated circuit. RTL integrated circuits were used in the Apollo Guidance Computer, whose design began in 1961 and which first flew in 1966. A bipolar...
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    dedicated interrupt every 40 ms and takes 18 ms to run. Unlike the Apollo Guidance Computer software, the software which ran on the LVDC seems to have vanished...
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    coast-to-coast unmanned flight. The lab also made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. In 1960, Draper was...
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  • Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer. AIAA. ISBN 1-56347-185-X. "APOLLO GUIDANCE COMPUTER (AGC) Schematics". klabs.org. Rich Katz...
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  • Laboratory who had worked on the software for NASA's Apollo Program including the Apollo Guidance Computer. The company specialized in compiler technology...
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    (IMP) and silicon integrated circuit chips in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). The crew of Apollo 8 sent the first live televised pictures of the Earth...
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    The Apollo spacecraft was composed of three parts designed to accomplish the American Apollo program's goal of landing astronauts on the Moon by the end...
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    integrated circuit (IC) chips in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). Project Apollo was abruptly halted by the Apollo 1 fire on January 27, 1967, in which...
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    Magnetic-core memory (category Magnetic-core memory computers)
    core rope memory, for example, was used on the mission-critical Apollo Guidance Computer essential to NASA's successful Moon landings. Using smaller cores...
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    the Apollo Guidance Computer, by the military in the LGM-30 Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile, the Honeywell ALERT airborne computer, and...
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    guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors (gyroscopes) and a computer to...
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    The Primary Guidance, Navigation and Control System (PGNCS) was developed by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory; the Apollo Guidance Computer was manufactured...
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    mid-1960s. The first silicon IC computer was the Apollo Guidance Computer or AGC. Although not the most powerful computer of its time, the extreme constraints...
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    functionally complete). The computer used in the spacecraft that first carried humans to the moon, the Apollo Guidance Computer, was constructed entirely...
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    an Apollo Guidance Computer and a watch worn on the Moon by Apollo 15 Commander David Scott, as well as the last surviving mainframe from the Apollo 11...
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  • integrated circuits was developed at Fairchild Semiconductor for the Apollo Guidance Computer in 1962. Texas Instruments soon introduced its own family of RTL...
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    on computers to aid in the Moon missions. The Apollo Guidance Computer was on the Lunar Module and the command and service module. Many computers at the...
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    integration" (SSI) devices. SSI ICs, such as the ones used in the Apollo Guidance Computer, usually contained up to a few dozen transistors. To build an entire...
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  • and Computer Design Fundamentals, Third Edition. Prentice Hall, 2004. p. 73. Whipple, Walt (2019). First-Hand:Hacking Apollo's Guidance Computer. Engineering...
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