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Ask HN: Is the Apollo Guidance Computer (1960) the first embedded system ever?
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Re: Ask HN: Is the Apollo Guidance Computer (1960) the first embedded system ever?
#2It might depend on your definition of "system". WW II battleships had electro-mechanical computers for fire control.
Re: Ask HN: Is the Apollo Guidance Computer (1960) the first embedded system ever?
#3Lift controllers date from the 1920's. I'd consider them embedded systems.
Re: Ask HN: Is the Apollo Guidance Computer (1960) the first embedded system ever?
#4Where does the "1960" come from? Wikipedia lists August 1966 as when the AGC was introduced.
AGC was preceded by many other digital guidance computers, including those for the Minuteman I, the Minuteman II, and Gemini.