(CBS) – On July 6, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off with ... Crew members communicated with the AGC using display and keyboard units known as DSKY. The computer in turn would communicate with the ...

such as the display. It’s one thing comparing against a state-of-the-art phone, but how did the Apollo 11 computer compare against a classic calculator? Texas Instruments was one of the most famous ...

He and [Mike Stewart] are working to restore the computer for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in 2019 ... replacement for the DSKY input and display panel, as the original is ...

For example, pressing "verb" followed by "35" triggered a test of the indicator lights and display. Verb and noun commands ...

So when NASA astronauts rapidly approached the moon 50 years ago, a lot was riding on a computer with less than ... two of these computers on the Apollo 11 mission: one on the Command Module ...

The Apollo 11 computer had a processor – an electronic ... The user interface (called Display Keyboard) had a calculator-type interface where commands had to be input using numerical codes.

Bales had a monitor in front of him ... first time men submitted to ride in a vehicle controlled by a computer.” The Apollo 11’s rendezvous radar system triggered this rare error, and during ...