Display Keyboard

Prenounced diskey.

In- and output device for the AGC used a board the Apollo spacecrafts. Every craft carries 2 inwhich commands can be enter using a noun-verb syntax. For example: DISPLAY VELOCITY of LOAD ANGLE.

For a typical mission 10,500 keystrokes were required.

Information is a summary of DDJ History of Computing #6 (February 2001) and various NASA sources.

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