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Moon mission apollo guidance computer core rope memory handmade by raytheon 1969 computer history full playlist.

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Computer memory ram random access memory is a storage device for your computers working data content. Computer history museum 2013 http www. Thus once a core rope was carefully manufactured using a half mile of wire data was permanently stored in the core rope. If that doesn t strike your uh wha neurons try this.

Core rope memory is a form of read only memory rom for computers first used in the 1960s by early nasa mars space probes and then in the apollo guidance computer agc designed and programmed by the massachusetts institute of technology mit instrumentation lab and built by raytheon. We have a great online selection at the lowest prices with fast free shipping on many items. Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands affordable prices. Software written by mit programmers was woven into core rope memory by female workers in factories.

There are 64 000 000 kilobytes of memory in your 64 gig smartphone and. 2 the trick was to put many wires through each core as shown above hardwiring the data. But while erasable core memory used one core for each bit core rope stored an incredible 192 bits per core achieving much higher density. Fast free shipping on many items.

A 1 bit was stored by threading a wire through a core while the wire bypassed the core for a 0 bit. We have a great online selection at the lowest prices with fast free shipping on many items.