TIL that NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer had far less processing power than a simple modern calculator

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TIL that NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer had far less processing power than a simple modern calculator

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Today I Learned (TIL)English · 3 months ago

Computing Power of Apollo 11 & The Tech Behind It

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Modern smartphones contain millions of times more computing power than the technology that took NASA’s first astronauts to the moon 50 years ago this week.

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