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To: Gay State Conservative
From the Wikipedia article, Apollo Guidance Computer :

The computer's RAM was magnetic core memory (2 kibiwords, where a kibiword is 1,024 words) and ROM was implemented as core rope memory (36 kibiwords). Both had cycle times of 11.72 micro-seconds. The memory word length was 16 bits: 15 bits of data and 1 odd-parity bit. The CPU-internal 16-bit word format was 14 bits of data, 1 overflow bit, and 1 sign bit (ones' complement representation).

My cell phone has about 20 Megabytes of user memory available, which is several thousand times the storage capacity of the AGC's RAM.

26 posted on 07/04/2009 6:04:46 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

leading bit lsd or msd?


37 posted on 07/04/2009 7:20:01 PM PDT by tophat9000 ( We are "O" so f---ed)
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