thewonderidiot
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Do the CMs in museums still have the CMC inside? If so, you could read the actual-actual-flown software (maybe they even let you inside ).
(Un)fortunately no -- we know for a fact that almost all of the PGNCS hardware, including the AGCs, was removed from (almost?) all of the CMs after flight. There may be some exceptions like Apollo 11, but we have definite proof that the Apollo 12, Apollo 13, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, and Skylab-2 capsules, at a minimum, do not still contain their computers or ropes. This is both good and bad -- it's bad obviously in that a lot of the flown hardware is missing and possibly destroyed. But it does mean that many of the flown rope modules that do still exist don't belong to the Smithsonian, which means it is much easier to get access to them.