The time finally came to hand the now-working Apollo guidance computer back to its owner, which left the team without any hardware to read core rope modules. But the archive of software from the ...

Core among them was the Apollo Guidance Computer, charged with keeping the craft on target as it travelled to its destination and back again. Marc Verdiell, also known as CuriousMarc, is a bit of ...

Among them: the Navajo women who assembled state-of-the-art integrated circuits for the Apollo Guidance Computer and the women employees of Raytheon who wove the computer’s core memory.

The Apollo Guidance Computer, in both its guises — one on board the core spacecraft, and the other on the lunar module — was a triumph of engineering. Computers had been the size of rooms and filled ...

Core rope memory, a now antiquated form of read-only memory, was used with a unique assembly programming language to write the code that ran the Apollo Guidance Computer. Apollo Guidance Computer ...