Me too, would have been very interesting to compare how a (code) patch looked/was deployed 60 years ago, compared to today :) Wonder what the size difference would be.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385393 When the only copy of your computer is 15 billion miles away, and the documentation is OCR'd 50 year old printouts, and no one recorded what was patched when
Apollo patches would require new strands of wire, and then literally woven through the proper rings. There was no git push and no CI/CD available.
Same here, or patches to malfunctioning systems while in space, such as the Apollo 13 carbon-dioxide scrubber hack.