1960

Title: L.O.L Memory

Autor: A group of women workers at Raytheon

NASA engineers at the time nicknamed the Core Rope Memory used in the AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer) "LOL memory." This acronym stood for "little old lady," referring to a group of women workers at Raytheon who were literally weaving the memory for the AGC. Thus, the Apollo software was not written on hard disks or flash memory but was something tangible—a weaving of copper wires. These women had to painstakingly translate all the lines of binary code (the software) into a matrix of wires and bobbins, in a process that required hours of arduous hand weaving.