[AccessD] Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Sep 13 11:24:23 CDT 2012


Months of assembler coding.

Jim 

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LOL.  One Raspberry Pi would have given them many hundreds of times the
compute power.

It always amazes me what they managed to get done with so little power.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 9/13/2012 9:47 AM, Doug Steele wrote:
> They had Lego in those days; too bad they hadn't invented the Raspberry
Pi:
>
>
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/university-builds-chea
p-supercomputer-with-raspberry-pi-and-legos/
>
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:10 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>> And all you iPhone nerds think you got it bad...
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
>>
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