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She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon (lemmy.world)
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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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[-] Marduk73@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Amazing. Punch cards are before my time but did she have to plot out the code before creating punch cards? I'm wondering about the " by hand " part of it.

[-] OctarineYoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

As @hjeremy@lemm.ee noted, this was woven into core rope memory, not punch cards.

[-] Marduk73@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that sounds neat. I'll go look that up as i haven't heard of core rope.

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