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My new favorite YouTuber, CuriousMarc, has a whole series of videos about restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). His AGC Playlist: https://www.youtube.c

• kens 6y ago
  Just to keep everything straight, the AGC that we restored is a totally different computer from the LVDC/LVDA that this board is from. The AGCs were on the Command Module and the Lunar Module that went to the Moon's surface, while the LVDC was onboard the Saturn V rocket. The AGC was one of the very first computers to use integrated circuits, while the LVDC used hybrid modules. The LVDC used triple-redundant circuits with voting while the AGC was not redundant. The LVDC was a 26-bit serial computer, while the AGC was a 15-bit computer. The LVDC was built by IBM, while the AGC was built by MIT and Raytheon. It's interesting that the two computers were different in so many ways.
• TheDesolate0 6y ago
  the audio is often so bad tho, I can't understand what they are saying half the time.