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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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Did you know that programs for the Apollo guidance computer were woven, by hand, in to Core Rope Memory modules?
Here's a really cool demonstration of using Core Rope to make a drum synthesizer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zytjONYkU94
This is wild. Already sent to a friend who's deep on old-school analog synths. Thanks!
i thought you were making some weird joke.... turns out to be the most incredibly interesting thing i have read maybe ever.
awesome!