Only 4 killabutts?! 📦

52    14 Feb 2021 19:14 by u/Giggles_De_Ghost

10 comments

7 u/wuzizname 14 Feb 2021 21:23
Tbf there was also a 32kb hard drive involved as well iirc. And as far as pure computational calculations that’s plenty. Even the space shuttle before it retired ran on a 486 processor. We take computational speeds and capacities for granted today because we expect pretty interfaces and multi tasking but when push comes to shove you don’t need a lot if you focus on strict priorities.
5 u/Boardallday420 14 Feb 2021 22:05
It was magnetic rope memory. No transistors. Many expert weavers had to weave the cores by hand. This is a video about it https://youtu.be/dI-JW2UIAG0 ..Skip to 3 min
2 u/Giggles_De_Ghost [OP] 14 Feb 2021 22:57
Wow that is crazy imagine being like 3/4 of the way through and forgetting your place.
1 u/Boardallday420 15 Feb 2021 01:00
To interact with the software they had to use long rolls of paper with punch outs if I remember right. They had to go through the entire thing after each flight which took days and find little issues with the trajectory and everything. Was tedious work but was cutting edge for them at the time, to have the computer record and make corrections make system checks on it's own and stuff.
3 u/None 14 Feb 2021 21:56
If it actually happened that is.
3 u/Matteus 14 Feb 2021 23:27
Yeah, but it took them 3 days. checkmate.
2 u/Mopar_or_nocar20 14 Feb 2021 21:25
Analog gang rise up!
1 u/SirSteve 15 Feb 2021 01:27
Yeah but I'm trying to play eu4 on 5 speed
1 u/None 15 Feb 2021 05:16
And it took months, that's latency so sinful NASA should be fired.
1 u/Wingo 15 Feb 2021 08:24
The peak of storage efficiency.