The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was developed to provide reliable real-time control for the Apollo spacecraft that carried US astronauts to the moon, 1969-1972. This site is devoted to documenting the machines, people and institutions that made this possible.
The history of computing in California, the magazine we publish about it, and the museum we're creating to display it. Links to computer history resources worldwide.
The invention of the world's first automatic totalizer by Sir George Julius, Mechanical Aids to Calculation - extracts of a paper presented to the Institution of Engineers Australia in 1920