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Originally Posted by Mulliganguy
More power in our cell phones than what was available in computers back in the day!🤓
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True. By a factor of millions as I understand it.
Apollo 11 did have rudimentary onboard computer, "On board Apollo 11 was a computer called the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). It had 2048
words of memory which could be used to store “temporary results” – data that is lost when there is no power. This type of memory is referred to as RAM (Random Access Memory). Each word comprised 16 binary digits (bits), with a bit being a zero or a one. This means that the Apollo computer had 32,768 bits of RAM memory." (real clear science). Mission Control, where the big decisions were made, also had an equally rudimentary (by today's standards) mainframe computer but that stayed firmly on the ground, being about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. Even both together, it wasn't much: They basically flew that thing by the seat of their pants.
It was a different world, and decidedly a different America, then.