Mike, thank you so much for such patient and thoughtful corrections. I've updated the article in response to each point you raised and added footnotes crediting you and Ron Burkey, who shared some of the same feedback via email. It's been extremely cool to learn more about the Apollo program lore in the process of pulling this all together.

Your experimental work on the voltage difference is fascinating, I appreciate you sharing the link to the demo. There's something about seeing results come off real hardware that you just don't get from computer simulation. Watching your setup brought back some of the excitement I felt driving my Makerbot via a stylus input 15 years ago (probably the last time I seriously engaged with hardware) [1]. Thanks!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNvt9PGhnds

The front page has moved on but this is pure gold, thanks for making the time to share all these details.

Great comment!

The anomaly report pdf is quite long. The relevant pages for the bug report are 51 and 52: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/contents_of_luminar...

One of the coolest replies I've ever seen on HN for sure. Thanks for taking the time to write this out!

I was hoping you'd comment here. Thank you. Amazing bits of lore.

Waiting patiently for the blog post to be edited as it's now clear it makes wrong claims starting with the subheading: "How a specification found what fifty-seven years of scrutiny missed."