Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "How did the Apollo flight computers get men to the moon and back ?" video.

  1. Good explanation of the “1202 alarm” and “1201 alarm” that happened during the Apollo 11 moon landing here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/07/no-a-checklist-error-did-not-almost-derail-the-first-moon-landing/
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  2. The LVDC was made of hard-wired logic gates, so it wasn’t a programmable computer as such. And it worked in conjunction with an analog computer, which handled the low-level stuff (like adjusting the rocket nozzle gimbals) and could respond much faster.
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