Apollo guidance computer restoration series

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Has anyone else been in awe of the work of Mike and the team that restored an AGC recently? It's been uploaded on CuriousMarc's youtube channel, 22 videos that are completely fascinating to anyone interested in the inner workings of early computers or just space nerds in general!

We embark on the restoration of a very rare and historically significant machine: the Apollo Guidance Computer, or AGC. It was the revolutionary MIT-designed computer aboard Apollo that brought man on the Moon (and back!). Mike Stewart, space engineer extraordinaire and living AGC encyclopedia, spearheads this restoration effort. In this first episode, we setup a makeshift lab in his hotel room, somewhere in Houston. The computer belongs to a delightful private collector, Jimmie Loocke, who has generously allowed us to dive in the guts of his precious machine, with the hope of restoring it to full functionality by July 2019, the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.

Later on in the series Ben Krasnow (Applied Science) brings the ElectroLuminescent display that he spent approx 6months working on and gets it connected to the working AGC! They also simulate a moon landing on the actual computer.. It's so cool what they've achieved!

 

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Ep 24 has been uploaded, AGC goes on tour and gets demo'd to the public, probably a good one to watch if you aren't interested in all the low level problem solving stuff.