The Apollo Guidance Computer Architecture and Operation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: OBrien, Frank. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2010.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0877-3

By today's standards, the on-board computer used by the Apollo astronaut's was a primitive affair, but in an age when most computers filled an entire room, this was small, required little power, and incorporated several technologies that were revolutionary for its time. This is the first b...

Table of Contents:

• History, evolution and packaging
• Machine organization
• Interpretive instructions
• The executive program
• Important background routines
• Display and keyboard (DSKY)
• I/O devices and interfaces
• Application programs
• Erasable memory programs
• Interaction with the ground
• Selected case studies
• Epilogue.