CraigGT Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 It's just a thought but 50 years before 2.8 update was released, Apollo 11 was on it's way to the moon. I wonder how the two's relative computing power stacks up :-) Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 2 hours ago, CraigGT said: It's just a thought but 50 years before 2.8 update was released, Apollo 11 was on it's way to the moon. I wonder how the two's relative computing power stacks up :-) Craig Lol... Helix could probably have run every system in the LEM, with enough processing power left over for a leper colony in Calcutta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikey Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 Cru your phone today could have run every system in the LEM and then some. And yet, today I'm hearing theres issues about going back? Doesn't make any sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lungho Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 From what I remember, the computer only had a 2 MHz CPU and 4k of RAM. I don't think today's NASA can make toast without getting their schlong caught in the toaster. I wouldn't be surprised if them having issues getting back to the moon were true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 14 minutes ago, lungho said: I don't think today's NASA can make toast without getting their schlong caught in the toaster. I'm writing that one down....lmao! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigGT Posted July 20, 2019 Author Share Posted July 20, 2019 Funny thing is that we're using all that power to recreate amps that were commonplace back then :-) Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy1175 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 Just listening to a guy who was part of the Honeysuckle tracking station team in Australia at the time. He said that their computer was the size of a wardrobe and had 32k of memory. It was an amazing achievement for the time, but what a shame it was merely a prelude to bigger and faster nukes. There's a really nice film, "The Dish" following the moon landing, set in the Parkes observatory which played a key part in relaying coms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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