About a decade ago didn't the astronauts in the shuttle have more computing power in their laptops than the shuttle had?
~KLM
~KLM
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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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