Hackaday

Saving Apollo By Decoding Core Rope

One of our favorite retro hardware enthusiasts, [CuriousMarc], is back with the outstanding tale of preserving Apollo Program software, and building a core rope reader from scratch to do it. We’ve ...
Hackaday

Apollo Comms Flight Hardware Deep Dive

You no doubt recall the incredible Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) reverse engineering and restoration project featured on the CuriousMarc YouTube channel a few years ago. Well, [Marc] and the team are ...
SlashGear

Chart Compares Apollo 11 Guidance Computer To Ordinary USB-C Chargers

Programmer Forrest Heller recently published a chart comparing the Apollo Guidance Computer used during NASA's Apollo 11 mission with three modern USB-C devices, including an ordinary Google Pixel ...
Cult of Mac

A USB-C charger packs more computing power than NASA’s first moon rocket

The Apollo 11 Guidance Computer spacecraft helped get men from the Earth to the Moon and back in 1969. All the CYPD4225 processor in Anker’s USB-C charger needs to do today is be sure this accessory ...
Ars Technica

A deep dive into the Apollo Guidance Computer, and the hack that saved Apollo 14

I'll echo all the other comments here, amazing and yes, more please. As someone who spends a lot of time slinging code in "embedded" systems where "embedded" means ~1GB of RAM and a couple Ghz cores ...