``Thanks to David McMahon for this blog. However, let me say that all this is well known to people who have read about Apollo XI. The computer used was very advanced for the time. And, sorry, it did not work perfectly. It got overloaded just before landing and displayed an error signal. So, the Lunar Module pilot - Col Edwin E. ``Buzz'' Aldrin - had to take over and do a manual landing. Thanks , David for the picture and the info. The QWERTY keyboard and TV-type monitor were not used for computers in 1969. Computers of the time were either mainframes that usually used punch cards or mission specific like this Apollo XI computer. ''Email received from J. Thomas
My reply to the email:
``You're absolutely right about the error message. It is a riveting story that could be a piece of bestselling fiction. See my blogpost titled `An Error Message During Eagle's Descent' and let me know what you think.''
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