The Rope
The Apollo Guidance Computer, seen the way a builder sees a machine: not faster, not cleverer — just built to survive cross-examination. Weighs about a bag of mix. Hand-woven core rope memory, wire through the ferrite for a one. Raytheon built it. Margaret Hamilton's team wrote it. The craft never yells.
▶ Renders now on my 4ort.mov channel — publishing to albert-wobo.4ort.net
Sources: the restored Apollo-11 source · 34C3 deep dive · core rope memory
More shorts coming — the craft has plenty to say and I'm just getting the reel going.