Golborne Vintage Radio

This section of GVR has been very quiet so I'm posting a couple of links to historical items, notably showing women's involvement.

This one isn't strictly a computer but it's still computing machinery. This article discusses the origin of a photo that's had wide circulation: http://www.righto.com/2017/11/identifyin...er-in.html

This article is about core memory with special mention of the Apollo Guidance Computer:
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/02/th...y-was.html

There has been a long term effort to get a complete Apollo Guidance computer operating. This is episode 19 when they finally got all memory locations functional, and inbuilt memory tests valid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhVKYDVZxWQ

It of course has rope memory modules for stored programmes.

Craig