Excellent and informative MIT Web site on Digital Apollo
Here:
http://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/
The site links to the MIT Press catalogue page, where you can read all
of Chapter 1 online here:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262134977chap1.pdf
The author Mindell captured both the Apollo 11 events and the overall
purpose and goal of the book very well in that one chapter. Well enough
that I fully intend to add this book to my personal library. Normally I
find books that focus on computers and such dry and boring, but Mindell
did a great job weaving together all the various elements that made
Apollo possible and including a good human interest story in the process.