On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 07:55 PM, Ted Dobosz wrote:
I am from the good old days :)
I was always amazed at what could be achieved with rope core memory. Coding had to be efficient. From Wikipedia: The Apollo Guidance computer?software was written in AGC?assembly language?and stored on?rope memory.?The bulk of the software was on read-only rope memory and thus could not be changed in operation.
I'm from the days that came later, but I did spend some time writing the early video games that had to fit into an 8K ROM cartridge, and yet contained 3D animated graphics, sound effects and music, and multiple levels of interactive play. Talk about having to be code-efficient ;)?
Paul Kanevsky