There&#x27;s a few of us here combing through the old stuff to see all that old wisdom and tricks. So many clever things. I saw the mercury computers researching old systems of my arch-nemesis, the NSA. The document joked that buffer overflows were a serious problem on those. No shit lol!<p>The rope memory I read about studying Apollo and Margaret Hamilton&#x27;s work. Core I saw a bit of watching videos of Burroughs computers, my favorite, being assembled in factories. It was actually kind of mesmerizing watching that old stuff because you can <i>see</i> all the brilliance and intricacies of the device. Today, it&#x27;s all hidden behind plastic for anyone except labs (eg ChipWorks) that can pull it out. People say, &quot;Why would I pay (obscene amount here) dollars for this little piece of plastic?&quot; One thing I do is show them pictures of old computers without covers saying &quot;It&#x27;s basically that... with 10x more components... squeezed into that tiny space. What, did you think squeezing a room full of wiring and components into a tiny space cost a few bucks?&quot;