IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Apollo Flight Guidance Computer ...

I've lurked here for over a decade, thanks for all of the great articles. This is a masterpiece and one of the most fascinating articles that I've ever read. Thanks for making my commute home so much ...

The functions of guidance, navigation, and control are vital to all forms of air and space flight. The Space History collections in this area attempt to reflect that significance and illustrate the ...

The system responsible for the first moon landing is now readily available online, after an enterprising former NASA intern uploaded the Apollo Guidance Computer code to Github this week.

Some people change the world with technology. Some people use technology to change the world. And some people find ways to mine Bitcoin on really, really, really old computers. Ancient Computer ...

Abstract: Six decades ago, the Apollo program ushered in the first integrated-circuit flight computer—the Apollo Guidance Computer—and gave rise to the term “software.” Today, computation permeates ...

Cool stuff: A British startup has developed a watch geared at NASA super geeks (you know who you are). The timepiece takes the concept of the calculator watch, which was highly popular in the 1980s, ...

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 ...