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Old 06-06-07, 08:36 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Foghladh_mhara
enough processing power to send men to the moon.
That's not really too much...i remember reading somewhere that the mission computer on the NASA Lunar landing vehicle in the Apollo mission pales in comparison to a (brace yourself)....486 or early Pentium CPU
Actually, it pales in comparison to the original IBM PC.

There are wristwatches today that are more powerful than an Apollo Guidance Computer.
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