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RCA manufactured and maintained the electronics utilizing an RCA 501 computer with 32k " high speed memory ", 5-76KC 556 bpi 3 / 4 " tape drives and a 200 track random access LFE drum to maintain wire connection lists at RCA's Astro Electronics Division facility in Hightstown, NJ.

Every wire was able to be traced from origin to destination with software and the weight of the cable interconnecting cabinets was automatically calculated by an RCA 501 machine language program named " signal path " written by Robert Goerss, computing facility director.