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1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2019 22:31:00 EDT Nate Cull

   Apollo computer core rope memory is trending!!!

   I hope nothing bad happened to it

   Edit: The core rope control logic had Integrated Circuits, some of the first ever made!

   http://www.righto.com/2019/07/software-woven-into-wire-core-rope-and.html

   1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2019 22:34:13 EDT Nate Cull

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      "There wasn't much inside each IC, just six transistors and eight resistors."

      That tracks with the IC that shipped with the Tandy Science Fair 150-in-1 kit (1976), obviously a few years later for the toy market but still Apollo-ish tech level.

   2. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2019 22:35:48 EDT Nate Cull

      in reply to

      "There wasn't much inside each IC, just six transistors and eight resistors."

      That tracks with the IC that shipped with the Tandy Science Fair 150-in-1 kit (1976), obviously a few years later for the toy market but still Apollo-ish tech level.

   3. Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 00:11:23 EDT Elias Mårtenson

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      @natecull It might be becasue of this series of videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSahAoOLdU&list=PL-_93BVApb59FWrLZfdlisi_x7-Ut_-w7

      1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2019 00:26:21 EDT Nate Cull

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         @loke Neat!