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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) (category Apollo program)
    developed the Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo lunar exploration program. Hamilton was the first programmer hired for the Apollo project at MIT...
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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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    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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