an open source project that graphically recreates the panel Apollo astronauts actually used to enter commands and get data from the computer. Of course, the next step would be to hack in support ...

and the guidance and navigation control systems. This mission used the first Apollo Guidance Computer ever flown, and this mission was vital to testing the computer that would take men to the moon.

Although already obsolete (it has only a 286 processor), it is faster and has more memory than the 70-pound computer on board the Apollo spacecraft ... As the guidance control officer for the ...