To be serious, the Apollo testing was a combination of manual, semi-automatic, and automatic. You could program tests into the minicomputer and trigger them wit

To be serious, the Apollo testing was a combination of manual, semi-automatic, and automatic. You could program tests into the minicomputer and trigger them with a "start" button in the control room. The computer would carry out the steps for the test, check for parameters that were out of bounds, and display these on a CRT in the control room. Meanwhile, you could see other parameters on the gauges and chart recorders. So it was more advanced than you might expect. It replaced a system where you'd radio a guy at the rocket and tell him to switch things on and off, and he'd tell you what happened. Needless to say, that was pretty unreliable.