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Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses

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The MMI 5300 was a memory chip from the early 1970s, storing 1024 bits in tiny fuses. 1 Unlike regular RAM chips, this was a PROM ( Progra...
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Apollo Guidance Computer: Dipstiks and reverse engineering the core rope simulator

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Onboard the Apollo spacecraft, the revolutionary Apollo Guidance Computer helped navigate to the Moon and land on its surface. The AGC'...
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Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash

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We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer 1 . Now that we have the world's only working AGC, I decided to write some code for...
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Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer

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Onboard the Apollo spacecraft, the revolutionary Apollo Guidance Computer helped navigate to the Moon and land on its surface. One of the f...
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