alt Hacker NewsClicking around the code, it mentions a page with images... even more clicking around got me to this page/image: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Block1.html#DSKY / https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Block1ControlPanelDSKY.jpg
Damn, a control panel to input values, probably straight to the CPU. I guess the astronauts didn't have to learn assembly, but imagine a programmer having to recite all the raw code (I guess the commands (verbs) are numeric as well) to debug something, all the way at the moon.
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p_l • today at 8:09 AM
The funniest thing is that DSKY was, IIRC, a "temporary solution" that became the norm, and despite all the platitudes today it was apparently hated by astronauts.
The DSKY was the main input system for the AGC, and commands were inputted using the verb/noun system. Verb says what you want to do, and Noun says what you want to do that verb to.
For example, "Verb 35 Enter" lights every single segment and light on the DSKY, to make sure they're all working. "Verb 16 Noun 17 Enter" displays the IMU measurements, "Verb 16 Noun 36 Enter" displays the current time and "Verb 16 Noun 43 Enter" displays the current GPS lat/long. Verb 16 indicates to display something as decimal, and the noun indicates what to display.
Other commands could be used to input data, or set what program the AGC was running, for example if you wanted to change the current running program to 67, that would be "Verb 37 Enter 67 Enter"