hjeremy comments on She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon

submitted 3 years ago by MakunaHatata@lemmy.world to c/nextfuckinglevel@lemmy.world

Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969

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[–] hjeremy@lemm.ee 41 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Did you know that programs for the Apollo guidance computer were woven, by hand, in to Core Rope Memory modules?

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Here's a really cool demonstration of using Core Rope to make a drum synthesizer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zytjONYkU94

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 years ago

This is wild. Already sent to a friend who's deep on old-school analog synths. Thanks!

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[–] itsAsin@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago

i thought you were making some weird joke.... turns out to be the most incredibly interesting thing i have read maybe ever.

awesome!

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