Moon Landings

[NickFitz]

Interview with Margaret Hamilton, the woman in charge of the Apollo software: Margaret Hamilton: ‘They worried that the men might rebel. They didn’t’ | Technology | The Guardian

[darmstadt]

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Fantastic stuff, hats off to Buzz. ISTR the original vid featured Magnus Pike.

[Paddy]

Interview with Margaret Hamilton, the woman in charge of the Apollo software: Margaret Hamilton: ‘They worried that the men might rebel. They didn’t’ | Technology | The Guardian

The Appollo software worked so well because they had to work with very tight constraints in program space. There was no room for bloatware in those days.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Aye, and once you'd written & assembled your code, little old ladies had to knit it into core rope memory.

At 1:01.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Not forgetting, of course, the ladies who sewed the space suits together.