Caroline Kennedy (President Kennedy's daughter) is looking for the women seamstresses who sewed code into computers' memory rope (ROM) for Apollo missions

Find the Women Who Sewed Us Into Space

Ambassador Caroline Kennedy is looking for seamstresses who wove code for the computers used by NASA's Apollo program. She hopes to connect with the women, or their descendants, and to invite them to be part of the JFK Library's celebrations of the historic anniversary. Memory for the guidance computer was equal to only 72KB, and it took 8 weeks to weave that software into the core rope memory (ROM). The women were called LOL - stands for little old ladies. Software written by MIT programmers was woven into the Raytheon computer core rope memory by these female workers in factories. Some programmers nicknamed the finished product LOL memory, for Little Old Lady memory

If you know anything, please email Caroline at jfkmoonshot@jfklfoundation.org or kennedy@jfklfoundation.org

https://www.wcvb.com/article/caroline-kennedy-searching-for-at-least-5-women-who-contributed-to-jfks-moonshot/28123272


"Women who had worked in textile factories here in Massachusetts, which is such a big part of our heritage, sowed the memory rope for the Apollo missions -- the early computers, the guidance systems," Kennedy said.

So far, Kennedy believes she knows the names of five women who were part of the program:
Caroline Butler
Mary Julian
Helen Lennon
Vernell Norman
Edna Walcott