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Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer: Lessons from a 50-year-old system

The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) played a critical role in the Moon landings. One of the first computers to use integrated circuits, the compact AGC provided guidance, navigation, and control onboard the spacecraft. This talk explains how we repaired an AGC (including its ferrite core memory), got it running, and ran the original Moon landing software on it. I'll also discuss the AGC's innovations in software engineering, user interfaces, interpreters, real-time computing, and multi-tasking, along with its performance mining Bitcoins.

Bio:
Ken Shirriff restores old computers, including a Xerox Alto and an IBM 1401 punch card computer. His blog (righto.com) discusses reverse engineering everything from chargers to microprocessors. He wrote the Arduino IRremote library and added seven characters to Unicode. Ken was formerly a programmer at Google and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley.