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
I'm eternally envious of the man who got to marry her
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Did you know that programs for the Apollo guidance computer were woven, by hand, in to Core Rope Memory modules?
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Isn't this Jack Black's mom?
That was Judith Love Cohen.
How much mb is this?
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Margaret is a legend.
These people should have millions of followers instead we follow kardashians. No wonder the world is going to end😥
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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.
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