In 1969, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission made history by landing humans on the Moon. But what’s mind-blowing is the technology they used: the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) had a clock speed of just 1.024 MHz and 4KB of RAM. To compare: the av...
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Apollo Guidance Computer vs. Modern Computers: What’s the Real Difference? In 1969, NASA sent astronauts to the Moon using a spacecraft controlled by a computer with less power than today...
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Was the Apollo Computer Really Powerful Enough to Go to the Moon? One of the most fascinating facts about the Apollo Moon landings is how little computing power was available at the time....
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Hey, so the other night I heard someone talking about a "Pink Moon" and I was totally confused. Is it actually pink? Like, bubblegum pink? It sounded like something out of a fairy tale! O...
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