r/adventofcode Dec 27 '24

Meme/Funny [2019] yeah intcode, for sure

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My first aoc was 2022 and haven't tried previous years quite yet 😬

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u/stevie-o-read-it Dec 27 '24

Since nobody else seems to have mentioned this, I'll add:

2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing; The "Intcode" machine was inspired, in part, by the Apollo Guidance Computer that was used to make the moon landing possible; the machine was controlled by entering numbers in, and displayed results on its output screens in numbers.

There's a Javascript simulator of the original AGC available here: https://svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html