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Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA

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    Edit: Tom's Hardware writers are either in an alternate timeline, had a story get stuck in the queue and just now automatically released, or something weirder because this was apparently already...

    Edit: Tom's Hardware writers are either in an alternate timeline, had a story get stuck in the queue and just now automatically released, or something weirder because this was apparently already done by the same intern in 2016?. I guess at no point do they actually claim this was newly released, the title is just bad.

    Original comment: Hasn't the code been available for awhile? Perhaps they just mean that it has been uploaded to GitHub from an official source.

    I'm fairly certain the original source code is what they are using in the Apollo Guidance Computer restoration video by CuriousMarc with Mike Stewart doing most of the AGC code work.

    This one in particular has them using the Apollo 11 AGC original code to "fly" the LM.

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