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

      • @Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
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        31 year ago

        She also had a team of engineers who I’m sure deserve at least some of the credit. This title is bunk.

        • @Blamemeta@lemmy.world
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          31 year ago

          Each punch card/ has 80 characters.

          So way less than you’d imagine, but this is also late 60s machine code (even lower than assembly), and it was mathematically proven to be correct.

          • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            Still assembly. Nasa’s Apollo Guidance Computer Assembly specifically. A punch card is to translate the code into 1s and 0s that, each line of which, constitutes an instruction that is fed to a punch card reader. However, that is not what this was made for. This code didn’t went on to a punch card, it went to an instruction loom. The system’s read-only memory consisted of a weave of ferromagnetic rings and copper wire that is called rope core memory. As in, Nasa paid people to carefully physically weave by hand the individual 1s and 0s.

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          01 year ago

          Each punch card/ has 80 characters.

          So way less than you’d imagine, but this is also late 60s machine code (even lower than assembly), and it was mathematically proven to be correct.

    • @Matthew@programming.dev
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      91 year ago

      I know you’re likely joking, but for those who don’t know: back then, code was written onto and stored in paper punch cards.