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That, or he could have used a
real spaceship computer.
- Block I Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC): How to build one in your basement:
http://klabs.org/history/build_agc/
- Virtual AGC and source codes:
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/index.html
Apollo AGC was developed by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory in the 1960s. It was the first computer to use integrated circuits (ICs), running at 1 Mhz it offered four 16-bit registers, 4K words of RAM and 32K words of ROM. The AGC mutlitasking operating system was called the EXEC, it was capable of executing up to 8 jobs at a time. The user interface unit was called the DSKY (display/keyboard, pronounced "disky"); an array of numerals and a calculator-style keyboard used by the astronauts to communicate with the computer.