Amy Shira Teitel: How Apollo’s (geniusly) incompatible tv cameras made live Apollo broadcasts possible. Grainy and low framerate yes, but possible.

NASA went to incredible lengths to make Apollo possible with the very feeble beginnings of computers back then. Ars Technica has a nice deep dive into the control center back then (really worth a read, even if it’s a long article):

[https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/going-boldly-what-it-was-like-to-be-an-apollo-flight-controller/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/going-boldly-what-it-was-like-to-be-an-apollo-flight-controller/)

It’s unbelievable how much technology and engineering went into all that, and you see only the very surface of it in old videos. Things that now run on a simple computer back then had a floor of a building dedicated to it.