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Originally Posted by john walker's workshop
how the hell did we ever get there in the 60s, no computers, etc,? did we?
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there were computers, allright. Slow but used in smart and frugal way.
I believe control used IBM 360's and lander computer had whopping 4K of RAM and 36k of ROM, both magnetic core memory. It even had "multitasking" of cooperative type (akin Windows 3.11)
More info here:
Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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