Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code

The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

The woman whose software guided the Apollo missions has died

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30.
Hackaday

Apollo Guidance Computer Saved From The Scrap Yard

NASA needed a small and lightweight computer to send humans on their journey to the Moon and back, but computers of the day were made out of discrete components that were heavy, large, complicated ...
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Apollo Computer announces sale date for the second batch of Apollo A6000 Amiga-compatible computers

Apollo Computer will release a second batch of Apollo A6000 Amiga-compatible systems on October 13. An additional twenty units will be sold at the Amiga 40 event in Germany. The all-in-one ...
ExtremeTech

Apollo Guidance Computer Restored, Used to Mine Bitcoin

Some people change the world with technology. Some people use technology to change the world. And some people find ways to mine Bitcoin on really, really, really old computers. Ancient Computer ...
Cult of Mac

Your iPhone could handle 120 million moon missions at once

My father worked on an engineering team that designed the housing that held the components for the guidance computer onboard Apollo 11. Just this morning, I read an article looking back on the 50 ...
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A DIY Programmer Made a New Game for the 50-Year-Old Apollo Guidance Computer

To celebrate the recent 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, you can play a brand new game for the computer that put humans on the Moon, courtesy of programmer David Given. That is, if you ...