In an extraordinary display of raw power and maternal instinct, a protective elephant mother defends her herd against a bold Cape buffalo in the heart of Kenya’s wild plains. What began as a tense standoff escalated into an unforgettable moment — the elephant forcefully lifted the buffalo into the air with a single tusk after a fierce head-on confrontation.
Nature doesn't hold back.
Photo Credit: Kimberly Maurer | Captured during a wild safari moment in Kenya
That buffalo effed around and found out, don't mess with an elephant.
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). This was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Command Module (CM) and Lunar Module (LM). The AGC provided computation and electronic interfaces for guidance, navigation, and control of the spacecraft. It was among the first computers based on silicon integrated circuits (ICs). The computer's performance was comparable to the first generation of home computers from the late 1970s, such as the Apple II and TRS-80. At around 2 cubic feet in size, AGC held 4,100 IC packages.
The AGC has a 16-bit word length, with 15 data bits and one parity bit. Most of the software on the AGC was stored in a special read-only memory known as core rope memory, fashioned by weaving wires through and around magnetic cores, though a small amount of read/write core memory was available.
Astronauts communicated with the AGC using a numeric display and keyboard called the DSKY (for “display and keyboard,” pronounced “DIS-kee”). The AGC and its DSKY user interface were developed in the early 1960s for the Apollo program by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and first flew in 1966.
What a difference 70 years makes: 3.75 MB in 1956
