{"id":18061,"date":"2019-03-02T20:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T01:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18061"},"modified":"2019-03-02T20:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T01:45:04","slug":"videos-restoring-an-apollo-guidance-computer-agc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18061","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Apollo Guidance Computer<\/a> (AGC) seems quite primitive today but it was a great advance in real time computing for the 1960s. Even with just 2k of RAM and 37k of ROM, the AGC was crucial to the successful operation of the Apollo command module<\/a>s (CM) and Apollo Lunar Modules<\/a> (LM).<\/p>\n

A team organized by Marc Verdiell<\/a> (CuriousMarc<\/a>), who specializes in restoration of vintage electronic devices, is restoring an AGC to working condition. They have recorded their efforts in videos posted on the CuriousMarc channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

** <\/em>Apollo AGC Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon:<\/strong><\/p>\n

We embark on the restoration of a very rare and historically significant machine: the Apollo Guidance Computer, or AGC. It was the revolutionary MIT-designed computer aboard Apollo that brought man on the Moon (and back!). Mike Stewart, space engineer extraordinaire and living AGC encyclopedia, spearheads this restoration effort. In this first episode, we setup a makeshift lab in his hotel room, somewhere in Houston. The computer belongs to a delightful private collector, Jimmie Loocke, who has generously allowed us to dive in the guts of his precious machine, with the hope of restoring it to full functionality by July 2019, the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.<\/em><\/p>\n