I was amazed when we went through the NASA sight at Cape Canaveral and saw the control room that helped put man on the moon.
The guide told us that there was less computer power in that room, than in our iPhones.
And this was at the time of the 3Gs.
cjc
On 6 Jul 2014, at 3:10 am, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> But modern computers can do infinitely more than those early multi-ton monsters and even the first PCs [as in IBM and clones] But even things like word processing and games are beyond the notion if what a computer is supposed to do.
I spent the summer of 1969 at the Manned Spacecraft Center south of Houston. The Apollo flights were managed by several (3 or 5) linked IBM 360/50 mainframe computers, each of which probably had the storage capabilities of an iPhone, but not the speed.
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