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Early computer
This "data package" was the computer in the Mercury-Redstone blockhouse at Cape Canaveral. The plaque next to it points out that each of the wires on this core is one word of the instructions. If the wire passed through a core it was a binary "1" if it did not pass through the core it was a "0". This is how instructions were passed to the rocket. Each wire was hand strung and this was only one of many panels of instructions. A picture in the blockhouse showed women stringing wires on a large number of panels.It functions the same as the operating system in a modern computer.
Early computer
This "data package" was the computer in the Mercury-Redstone blockhouse at Cape Canaveral. The plaque next to it points out that each of the wires on this core is one word of the instructions. If the wire passed through a core it was a binary "1" if it did not pass through the core it was a "0". This is how instructions were passed to the rocket. Each wire was hand strung and this was only one of many panels of instructions. A picture in the blockhouse showed women stringing wires on a large number of panels.It functions the same as the operating system in a modern computer.