Core rope memory strikes me as the most absurd ideas for how to make memory as well as the most brilliant. I say this because of the shear simplicity of it.

The overall memory of the Apollo Guidance Computer was equivalent to 72kb (in modern terms) and the software had to be woven into the core rope memory, women in factories put the software together ...

As it turns out, this LOL memory stuff is quite important: it helped us to land on the Moon. As part of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Core Rope Memory was present in the Lunar Module, helping it land.

The core rope accounted for 74 kilobytes of read-only memory that was programmed before each Apollo flight. The computer also had 4 KB of rewritable memory used for temporary programs and data.

The core memory was also known as rope memory, and those who supervised its development were “rope mothers.” We know a great deal about one rope mother — Margaret Hamilton.

Core Rope Memory could hold 18 times more data and required less space than traditional memory. As the Apollo Guidance Computer was completed, ...

If you’ve heard of core rope memory, it will probably be in the context of vintage computing equipment such as Apollo-era NASA hardware. A string of magnetic cores and sense wires form a simple ...