The Alarms

Armstrong says the alarms weren't a serious concern because there wasn't anything obviously wrong. The computer was signalling that it had too much to do and had to prioritize only the missiond critical tasks, like keeping eagle flying at the right speed on the right trajectory. This was a bril a safety feature engineered by the programmers at m i t. So armstrong and aldrin temporarily lose some of the computer's functions, but nothing that they can't manage without. But why was the computer becoming overloaded? Buz aldrin would quickly diagnose the problem. It just unloads the computer enough to bring the load down below the critical level and allow them to continue with the landing.