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1. Vol 1 DSKY — Volume 1 — The Computer That Flew to the Moon What the Apollo Guidance Computer and its DSKY were, the impossible job they did, and why a 70-pound box still matters — the orientation volume for the eighteen-part series
2. Vol 2 DSKY — Volume 2 — Why Put a Computer in the Spacecraft? The autonomy decision, the quarter-million-mile navigation problem, and the August 1961 contract that handed the Moon to a university lab
3. Vol 3 DSKY — Volume 3 — The MIT Instrumentation Laboratory Doc Draper's gyroscope shop and the young engineers who taught a computer to fly to the Moon
4. Vol 4 DSKY — Volume 4 — The Integrated-Circuit Gamble How a moon mission bet its crews on a three-year-old invention
5. Vol 5 DSKY — Volume 5 — Core Rope Memory: Software You Could Hold How Apollo's program became a physical object — woven in copper and ferrite, permanent as a fossil
6. Vol 6 DSKY — Volume 6 — Inside the AGC: Architecture & Instruction Set A fifteen-bit mind, woven from wire and clocked at two megahertz
7. Vol 7 DSKY — Volume 7 — Block I to Block II: Evolution of the Machine From a single-gate prototype to the computer that flew to the Moon
8. Vol 8 DSKY — Volume 8 — The DSKY: Display & Keyboard The green-glowing panel that put a computer in the astronaut's hands
9. Vol 9 DSKY — Volume 9 — Verbs and Nouns: The Language of Apollo Sixteen keys, two-digit words, and a grammar that flew to the Moon
10. Vol 10 DSKY — Volume 10 — The Software and the Executive How a sliver of memory learned to do everything at once
11. Vol 11 DSKY — Volume 11 — Margaret Hamilton and the Birth of Software Engineering How a mathematician named the discipline and taught it to expect human error
12. Vol 12 DSKY — Volume 12 — 1202: The Alarms That Almost Stopped Apollo 11 Twelve minutes from the Moon, the computer cried for help — and the design answered
13. Vol 13 DSKY — Volume 13 — Landing on the Moon: The Descent Programs How the AGC and the commander flew the Lunar Module down together
14. Vol 14 DSKY — Volume 14 — The Whole Mission: Command Module, LM & Fly-by-Wire One machine, two spacecraft, and the digital nerve that outlived Apollo
15. Vol 15 DSKY — Volume 15 — Manufacturing the Impossible How the program for the Moon was woven by hand, wire by wire, into permanence
16. Vol 16 DSKY — Volume 16 — Legacy: How Apollo Helped Build the Modern World The long shadow a seventy-pound computer cast over everything that came after
17. Vol 17 DSKY — Volume 17 — Preservation, Restoration & Pop Culture How a fifty-year-old computer was switched back on, set free as open source, and made into a legend
18. Vol 18 DSKY — Volume 18 — The Open DSKY: Building the Replica The interface that flew to the Moon, glowing on your own workbench