(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 ...

It looks like an Apollo Guidance Computer ... for display and keyboard, the DSKY Moonwatch resembles the guidance computers used in the Apollo missions, including the world-famous Apollo 11 ...

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

The Apollo 11 project was such an engineering and ... The astronauts talked to the computer using a display and keyboard, typing in commands or codes or requests. During the historic flight ...

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.

Core among them was the Apollo Guidance Computer, charged with keeping the ... The interface for the AGC was the DSKY—short for “Display and Keyboard.” It’s how the astronauts controlled ...