> Imagine the person hours required to do something like that, you'd have to hire professional persian carpet weavers or something. Apollo Guidance Computer (t

> Imagine the person hours required to do something like that, you'd have to hire professional persian carpet weavers or something. Apollo Guidance Computer (the computer of the Apollo Command Module) has 36K 16-bit words of core rope memory. That is about 0.5MB. There were at least ten such computers created. So, this much core rope memory was woven for the Apollo Command Module's computers alone. See a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656282