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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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In the 1960s, the software for the Apollo guidance computer was stored in a woven substrate called core rope memory. We have also worked with the Rhode Island School of Design on fabric manufacturing. Mission to Earth–Moon Lagrange Point by a 6U CubeSat: EQUULEUS ," IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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Generally, a multitasking operating system tracks the progress of each of the programs it is running and then stores the entire state of each program—the values of its variables, the location of the program counter, and so on. Elaborate color foldouts in major magazines pictured the Macintosh and members of the design team.

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