Verb Noun Enter

It’s the 1960s. You have no mouse and no keyboard, and nobody has a computer on their desk. And you’re wearing a space suit.

How do you design a computer to be easy to use in this situation?

The Apollo Guidance Computer’s idea: numeric verbs and nouns.

Verb 16: display. Noun 65: time. Enter.

Bam. Simple yet powerful.

(Also, y’know, because I enter verbs and nouns here.)

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Learn more:

• MIT Science Reporter
• 13 Minutes to the Moon
• Ars Technica
• Apollo Flight Journal