Who wants to help read a Saturn V core stack?

Chuck Guzis wrote about core rope memory: Not really. You'd have thousands of very fine wires, all looking identical, that pass through some cores and go around others (on average perhaps 33 through each core), and packed incredibly densely. Even with very high resolution scans from multiple angles I don't think you could expect to extract the data visually. If you want to try the experiment, get the control store from a PDP-9 (DEC G920 module, 64 word by 36 bit) or the control store from and HP 9100 calculator (09100-69501 for 9100A, 09100-69551 for 9100B, either 64 words by 29 bits). Those should be much easier to read, as they didn't have to be packaged at maximum density for use on a spacecraft. I've looked at the 9100 control store module a few times, and I think reading it electrically would be *much* easier than trying to do it optically. Eric