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@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social 12 min. ago

Apollo Stored Its Flight Program in Wires Threaded Through Magnetic Rings

https://lockergnome.com/apollo-guidance-software-woven-into-wire-rom/

#apollo #memory #retro

Chris Pirillo in a 1960s shirt and tie threads a copper wire through some rings and around others on a big wooden frame, a rocket in the window.

Apollo Stored Its Flight Program in Wires Threaded Through Magnetic Rings

Core rope put fixed program bits into the route a wire took, while erasable memory handled the changing work.

#memory #apollo #retro

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