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Per this interview between Hamilton and Jaime Rubio Hancock (https://medium.com/@verne/margaret-hamilton-the-engineer-who...):

> Q: Was this picture taken during the Apollo project development? When was it taken and who took it?

> A: Here is a description of the photo excerpted from an MIT Draper Lab document:

> > “Taken by the Draper Lab photographer in 1969 (during Apollo 11). Here, Margaret is shown standing beside listings of the software developed by the team she was in charge of, the LM and CM on-board flight software team”.

Hamilton again, in this Vox interview (http://www.vox.com/2015/5/30/8689481/margaret-hamilton-apoll...):

> "In this picture, I am standing next to listings of the actual Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) source code," Hamilton says in an email. "To clarify, there are no other kinds of printouts, like debugging printouts, or logs, or what have you, in the picture."

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There's also the people who reportedly spoke to Ron Hackler about the photo[1][2], who notes that "they wrote all of the AGC source code on AGC source coding paper".

Such sheets would look like this: http://www.eah-jena.de/~kleine/history/software/IBM360-codin...

And would likely be much less dense than the printouts.

[1] Steve Dolha on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Was-this-pile-of-code-written-by-a-sin...

[2] This imgur post: https://www.quora.com/Was-this-pile-of-code-written-by-a-sin...