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Raytheon

A large industrial space with rows of electronic equipment and a prominent "Raytheon" sign above, indicating the location as a facility related to the company's history and manufacturing capabilities.

Massachusetts defence and electronics manufacturer, founded in 1922, contracted to fabricate the Apollo Guidance Computer's woven read-only memory at its Waltham plant. The painstaking work of threading wires through ferrite cores was done largely by women hired from the local textile trade, whose dexterity NASA considered better suited to the task than that of trained electronics technicians.

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