The Apollo 11 Code Is Open Source (and it's hilarious) [video]
gcanyon
13 points
2 comments
October 11, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
gcanyon
> In 1963 the Apollo program was buying 60% of all the microchips made in the US Daaaang.
MiroslavPokorny
Michael Steil also has a great tech talk about the Lunar module flight controller, from the interface to its internals. Search for "Ultimate talk", you will find similar talks about C64, and many other computers.