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submitted 2 weeks ago by manicdave@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

For example, Britain's national mapping organisation's brand is associated in our national consciousness with going to a small shop in a quaint village to get a map showing how to walk up a mountain. It's called Ordnance Survey. If that sounds like Artillery Research to you, that's because the project started because the king wanted to know how to accurately bomb Scotland.

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[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 44 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Those computers has less memory than a dollar store calculator. The boots in memory were physical magnets woven by hand into a mesh. It’s insane that it left our planet and came back with people alive.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, they even employed weavers to make the memory units, because it was easier than training factory workers to deal with such thin wire.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

to be fair, most of the calculations were done on Earth

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