Apollo Guidance Computer Part 5: We run a chunk of original Apollo code!

We are out of time for our first visit, and memory is not working. But our whiz kid Mike manages to whip up an FPGA memory emulator for the AGC just before we have to leave. The AGC gets to run a chunk of an original Apollo program!

Frequent comment answers:
Yes we know about Francois Rautenbach and the Block I core ropes (Apollo Rope Memory Modules (Part 1 - ...). These ropes are also from Jimmie but are not compatible with our Block II computer.
Yes we are in contact with Fran Apollo AGC DSKY Display Project, Pt.1 (and several others) about their superb DSKYs replicas.

Some relevant links:
Playlist of the restoration series: Apollo Guidance Computer Restoration
Block I AGC period documentary: MIT Science Reporter—"Computer for Ap...
Inertial navigation system documentary: Video
Schematics: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/links....
and: https://archive.org/details/agc_handb...
Mike's AGC backplane viewer: http://apolloguidance.computer/200310...
AGC software repo: https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc
The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk: 34C3 -  The Ultimate Apollo Guidance ...

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