Since we are reminiscing, it might interest you to know some facts about the Nasa computer used to guide the lunar missions that safely took man to the moon and back…
Apollo Guidance Computer
The lunar mission used a command module computer designed at MIT and built by Raytheon, which paved the way to “fly by wire” aircraft.
The so-called Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) used a real time operating system, which enabled astronauts to enter simple commands by typing in pairs of nouns and verbs, to control the spacecraft. It was more basic than the electronics in modern toasters that have computer controlled stop/start/defrost buttons. It had approximately 64Kbyte of memory and operated at 0.043MHz.
http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Apollo-11-The-computer…
For comparison; a basic mini calculator, many children’s toys, the apple watch, even the basic TV remote today has more computing power than those super advanced Nasa computers of that era.
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