The Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules

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IMPORTANT: You need to turn up streaming quality to the maximum allowable to be able to read it.

The Virtual AGC Project and MIT Museum made the original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code accessible in 2003.

The purpose of this video is to be a vlog of the source code. You can otherwise find it at the link below on GitHub here:

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

The code was written in a special Assembly language made specifically for the Apollo Guidance Computer. In Assembly language, each line is a direct instruction to the processor. No computer language can be closer to the processor than Assembly. Procedural programming languages like QBasic and C are higher level languages. Even higher than that are object-oriented programming languages (OOP) like C++ and Java.

If you imagine Assembly as Latin, then all languages are rooted in it, similar to how all Latin-based languages like French, Spanish, and Portuguese are rooted in Latin. If you can understand and master Assembly language, then you will have advanced knowledge of the very basics of computer instruction.

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