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Out of Gas, By George Hughes, 1961




This is 'rope memory' which held the program onboard Apollo 11 for the moon landing trip in 1969.
72K of memory, all hand wound, taking months to "program". If a wire went through one of the circular cores it represented a binary one...
Yet it was one of the first user programmable computers.
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