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Originally Posted by scottmandue View Post
And to think we went to the moon with slide rulers and computers less powerful that a cell phone... amazing stuff.
Less powerful than most pocket calculators from the 1970s.

A modern cellphone can run circles around a PC from about 10 years ago.

A PC from early 1980's would run circles around the computers used to calculate the moon shots from the 1960s.
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