Look at this gorgeous piece of aerospace history! This dense, exposed wedge of circuitry is the Gemini Guidance Computer, built by IBM in the 1960s.
To be a little more specific, it was the onboard brain used for Project Gemini and flown on Gemini 8 on March 16, 1966. The mission was piloted by Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott.
Fun fact: the Gemini computer had just 4,096 words of ferrite core memory. By the Gemini 8 era, the software had been split into program modules that could be loaded from the Auxiliary Tape Memory during different mission phases, because the full flight program had outgrown the computer’s limited memory.
I will always have the deepest appreciation for these early hardware pioneers!
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