Who wants to help read a Saturn V core stack?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 11 Nov 2008 at 10:50, Christian Corti wrote:

> As an example, this is the microprogram ROM of a Wang 600:
> http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/dev/wang700/wang700_rom.html

Regardless of the relevance to the original topic (the LVDC doesn't 
use core rope), my point was that if a core rope memory could be 
assembled manually, it certainly could be dis-assembled manually.

What isn't clear from the IBM LVDC description is how the programs 
were originally loaded into the computer.  I don't see any mention of 
a boot loader.  Was the core programmed separately and then installed 
into the LVDC?  Or was some sort of fixture attached for programming?

Cheers,
Chuck