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Old 22nd Nov 2018, 6:56 pm   #11
dr_nick
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Default Re: Apollo Guidance Computer

If you want what I think is a pretty definitive contemporary view on why the AGC was designed the way it was; in particular the use of a single logic gate (3 input NOR) as the only logic element (one other IC was used - a memory sense amplifier), then this paper from MIT is probably as close as you can get:

https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/hrst/archive/1716.pdf

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