With the aid of old NASA diagrams, Marc shows us where the AGC lived in the Command Module and the LEM. The AGC pictured alongside the DSKY. The Apollo program marked the first time humans had ...

A former NASA contractor happened to notice one of these historic Apollo Guidance Computers (AGC) at an electronics recycling facility, and thankfully was able to save it from getting scrapped.

Comparing Historical and Modern Computing The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) used during the first ... in computing power over the decades. NASA’s Pleiades runs on Linux due to its stability.

Related: The Apollo Program: How NASA sent astronauts to the moon Equally revolutionary as the AGC's small size was the way the Apollo astronauts interacted with it. Rather than carrying thousands ...