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This is an attempt to recreate Luminary 99 Rev 2, otherwise known as LUM99R2, from Luminary 99 Rev 1 and ephemeris data from Luminary 116. The differences are confined to the last 10-12 lines of the CONTROLLED CONSTANTS. Luminary 99 Rev 1 source-code was transcribed from a printout in the MIT Museum, while Luminary 116 source code was transcribed from a printout belonging to Don Eyles. AGC developer James Kernan, the "rope mother" for the Apollo 11 Lunar Module's AGC, explains as follows: "At the last minute, Dan Lickly, our chief engineer, appeared with ephemerides updates and it took two tries to get it right. The result was that we created Lum99 Revision 1 and Lum99 Revision 2." It is suspected that the former is what's in the MIT Museum, and the latter is what we are trying to recreate here. As for which revision actually flew in Apollo 11, all of the other available surviving evidence points to Rev 1 rather than to Rev 2, so we're just not sure!

014924,000002:                                                                                                  ## Copyright:   Public domain.
014925,000003:                                                                                                  ## Filename:    GIMBAL_LOCK_AVOIDANCE.agc
014926,000004:                                                                                                  ## Purpose:     Part of the source code for Luminary 1A build 099.
014927,000005:                                                                                                  ##              It is part of the source code for the Lunar Module's (LM)
014928,000006:                                                                                                  ##              Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), for Apollo 11.
014929,000007:                                                                                                  ## Assembler:   yaYUL
014930,000008:                                                                                                  ## Contact:     Ron Burkey <info@sandroid.org>.
014931,000009:                                                                                                  ## Website:     www.ibiblio.org/apollo.
014932,000010:                                                                                                  ## Pages:       364
014933,000011:                                                                                                  ## Mod history: 2009-05-17 RSB  Adapted from the corresponding 
014934,000012:                                                                                                  ##                              Luminary131 file, using page 
014935,000013:                                                                                                  ##                              images from Luminary 1A.
014936,000014:                                                                                                  ##              2010-12-31 JL   Fixed page number comment.
014937,000015:                                                                                                  ##              2016-12-14 RSB  Proofed text comments with octopus/ProoferComments
014938,000016:                                                                                                  ##                              but no errors found.
014939,000017:                                                                                                  ##              2017-03-03 RSB  Snapshot of Luminary 99 Rev 1. 
014940,000018:                                                                                                  ##              2017-03-15 RSB  Comment-text proofed using 5-way
014941,000019:                                                                                                  ##                              side-by-side diff of Luminary 69/99/116/131/210,
014942,000020:                                                                                                  ##                              but no errors (or any differences) found.
014943,000021:                                                                                                  ##              2017-08-22 RSB  Fixed comment-text typo identified in ZERLINA 56.
014944,000022: 

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014946,000024: 15,2050                                           BANK     15                                    
014947,000025: 
014948,000026: 22,2000                                           SETLOC   KALCMON1                              
014949,000027: 22,2000                                           BANK                                           
014950,000028: 
014951,000029:                                                                                                  #  DETECTING GIMBAL LOCK
014952,000030: 22,2744  22,2744               LOCSKIRT           EQUALS   NOGIMLOC                              
014953,000031: 
014954,000032: 22,2744           77614        NOGIMLOC           SET                                            
014955,000033: 22,2745           01074                                    CALCMAN3                              
014956,000034: 22,2746           70740        WCALC              LXC,1    DLOAD*                                
014957,000035: 22,2747           01325                                    RATEINDX                              #  CHOOSE THE DESIRED MANEUVER RATE
014958,000036: 22,2750           04772                                    ARATE,1                               #  FROM A LIST OF FOUR
014959,000037: 22,2751           45002                           SR4      CALL                                  #  COMPUTE THE INCREMENTAL ROTATION MATRIX
014960,000038: 22,2752           44527                                    DELCOMP                               #  DEL CORRESPONDING TO A 1 SEC ROTATION
014961,000039:                                                                                                  #  ABOUT COF
014962,000040: 22,2753           74343                           DLOAD*   VXSC                                  
014963,000041: 22,2754           04772                                    ARATE,1                               
014964,000042: 22,2755           03271                                    COF                                   
014965,000043: 22,2756           17326                           STODL    BRATE                                 #  COMPONENT MANEUVER RATES 45 DEG/SEC
014966,000044: 22,2757           03336                                    AM                                    
014967,000045: 22,2760           55605                           DMP      DDV*                                  
014968,000046: 22,2761           05002                                    ANGLTIME                              
014969,000047: 22,2762           04772                                    ARATE,1                               
014970,000048: 22,2763           77661                           SR                                             
014971,000049: 22,2764           20606                                    5                                     
014972,000050: 22,2765           03334                           STORE    TM                                    #  MANEUVER EXECUTION TIME SCALED AS T2
014973,000051: 22,2766           77614                           SETGO                                          
014974,000052: 22,2767           01035                                    CALCMAN2                              #  0(OFF) = CONTINUE MANEUVER
014975,000053: 22,2770           45010                                    NEWANGL    +1                         #  1(ON) = START MANEUVER
014976,000054: 
014977,000055:                                                                                                  #  THE FOUR SELECTABLE FREE FALL MANEUVER RATES SELECTED BY
014978,000056:                                                                                                  #  LOADING RATEINDX WITH 0, 2, 4, 6, RESPECTIVELY
014979,000057: 
014980,000058: 22,2771           00221 24255  ARATE              2DEC     .0088888888                            #  = 0.2 DEG/SEC         $ 22.5 DEG/SEC
014981,000059: 
014982,000060: 22,2773           00554 02660                     2DEC     .0222222222                            #  = 0.5 DEG/SEC         $ 22.5 DEG/SEC
014983,000061: 
014984,000062: 22,2775           02660 13301                     2DEC     .0888888888                            #  = 2.0 DEG/SEC         $ 22.5 DEG/SEC
014985,000063: 
014986,000064: 22,2777           16161 30707                     2DEC     .4444444444                            #  = 10.0 DEG/SEC        $ 22.5 DEG/SEC
014987,000065: 
014988,000066: 22,3001           00003 04000  ANGLTIME           2DEC     .0001907349                            #  = 100B-19 FUDGE FACTOR TO CONVERT
014989,000067:                                                                                                  #  MANEUVER ANGLE TO MANEUVER TIME
014990,000068: 
014991,000069: 

End of include-file GIMBAL_LOCK_AVOIDANCE.agc.  Parent file is MAIN.agc