There are teams out there doing reconstruction of the AGCs. I mean, they have real ones there and try to figure them out. The most sophisticated “computer chips” on that thing are basic logic chips: 10 pins, two for power and ground (12V, IIRC), and 2x4 pins for three-input NOR gates. They used them for everything: building flip-flops for registers, adders, and other stuff to for a kind-of 16-bit computer.
There is loads of documentation out there on the net.
Oh that would be a really fun experience. If the code is available anywhere I’d love to turn it into Rust.
It is!
https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
Note that it wasn’t saved digitally, so this is reconstructed from paper and might have transcription errors
Well
There goes my Saturday
There are teams out there doing reconstruction of the AGCs. I mean, they have real ones there and try to figure them out. The most sophisticated “computer chips” on that thing are basic logic chips: 10 pins, two for power and ground (12V, IIRC), and 2x4 pins for three-input NOR gates. They used them for everything: building flip-flops for registers, adders, and other stuff to for a kind-of 16-bit computer.
There is loads of documentation out there on the net.