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Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

44 pointsby notenesstoday at 5:18 AM8 commentsview on HN

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starkparkertoday at 5:42 AM

Happy 10-year anniversary to this repo being shared on HN.

Most significant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048945, 652 points, 145 comments on July 7, 2016

All previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/chrislgarr...

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prabhanjana_ctoday at 6:07 AM

Great to see the AGC assembly code and knowing that Apollo 11 is coded purely in assembly. Not sure if it has any compiler. Also found https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc while searching for compiler.

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corvadtoday at 5:43 AM

Really cool to see this digitized and archived, it's such an important piece of history and really one of the earliest digital ic bases computers.

Anonastytoday at 7:19 AM

Ok, someone evaluate it with Fable and vibecode it better. Remember "make no mistake".

miohtamatoday at 6:41 AM

In 1969, they had not invented lowercase yet.

guesswho_today at 6:29 AM

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