• I was speaking to my nephew while visiting for Easter. He is in school for electrical engineering. One point that came up is the story of how the Apollo missions had less computing power than an iPod.

    As I recall they used an 8-bit CPU and either 4K or 8K maximum program size. It was assembly code, but still that's not much if you're trying to do lunar insertion course corrections.

    Sigerson

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