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Apollo Core Rope Memory (Apollo Guidance Computer Part

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“CuriousMarc”

Core Rope Memory, which contained the programs that landed man on the Moon in the 1960s, is insanely complicated. But that …

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  1. Hi Marc. I love your content. Unfortunately I hated maths in my teens in my french speaking european chool because of constant abuse to count only on speed and memorizing

  2. i need a Ram chip implanted in my brain just to keep up with this stuff. For the first time I see how the rope memory is possible. Before, I could not see how wrapping a bunch wires, in and out of a frame could store data. Now I get it.

  3. What was the original intention of including the AB bit in the parity calculation? I see that it prevents the corresponding core in the B bank from being set, but since bank A has its own RESET wire that seems redundant. Did someone just get a little too creative for their own good?

  4. Was always curious how core rope memory worked but always struggled to wrap my head around it. Your explanation and visualization was fantastic.

  5. I wonder if SpaceX would be interested in sending a Dragon or a Starship to intercept the Apollo 10 LM and recover it or the fixed and erasable modules.

    That'd be the ultimate private industry flex (Not only are we colonizing Mars, we're recovering the historical artifacts that the government disposed of as trash on the way to doing it.)

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