3of5_Moon Machines-The Navigation Computer

LOL at 4:42

wow! thats how programing was done before?!!

I'm hoping we see a Mars program that employs people. I agree we put emphasis on the astronauts and neglect to mention the people involved in building the machines.

BTW I believe rope core was safer than silicon memory because silicon was sensitive to high speed particles in space. ie you can't take a home computer into space because it's not "hardened" it against radiation bombardment.

i wonder how the russians tried to fix this issue, in fact i think it would be fascinating to see this series on the russian side of the race.

Hear! Hear!
They'd never had made the moon without von Braun ...

so they stitch each bit of rom memory by hand!!!!!! what the hell's going on. i don't understand what they're doing xD

does anyone know how it works? are they compiling COBOL with the cards in the computers then manually writing the machine code on that rope for the chips, or what? lol.

i wish i could tell ya

Something like that, they build each bit cell by hand, look for ferrite-core memory in google if you want more info.

Every ring in 4:31 stores one bit so imagine...

Truly wonderful and perfectly understandable documentary!
I fully agree Michchap.