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Every Apollo guidance computer that flew to the Moon had its software literally woven by hand at a Raytheon factory outside Boston, where women threaded copper wire through tiny magnetic cores to encode each bit as either a one or a zero, a process the engineers nicknamed LOL memory for Little Old Lady. Saving Tips June 4, 2026 The Apollo Guidance Computer that landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Sea of Tranquility in July 1969 ran…
The computer that landed Apollo 11 stored its code in “rope memory” that was physically woven by hand by a workforce of women in a Massachusetts factory, a wire through a magnetic ring meaning one and around it meaning zero, so the program that carried humans to the Moon was literally knitted into being. Saving Tips May 30, 2026 The lede above is true, and it is one of the stranger facts about the Apollo programme. The software that…
When a massive solar storm hit Earth in 1972, it triggered a series of magnetic fluctuations so severe that it accidentally detonated dozens of U.S. Navy sea mines off the coast of North Vietnam, a military mystery that was only classified and explained decades later Saving Tips May 27, 2026 On August 4, 1972, U.S. military pilots flying south of Haiphong harbour in North Vietnam saw something they could not…
