• z00s@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I watched an amazing documentary on YouTube, made at the time of Apollo 11 that showed how the computers worked. It absolutely blew me away.

    The way they did so much with so little was incredible. There was no such thing as flashing firmware to a chip; they hard coded the bits and bytes by hand. BY HAND.

    That’s like hiring people to count the grains of sand on a beach. Amazing!

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      8 months ago

      That’s like hiring people to count the grains of sand on a beach. Amazing!

      no it isn’t… they wove the memory… like weaving