NASA needed a small and lightweight computer to send humans on their ... contractor happened to notice one of these historic Apollo Guidance Computers (AGC) at an electronics recycling facility ...

This mission used the first Apollo Guidance Computer ever flown, and this mission was vital to testing the computer that would take men to the moon. While the software from the later missions ...

the British startup Apollo Instruments has been able to shrink the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) even further — to the size of a wristwatch. Now, anyone can wear the display and keyboard system ...

Do this with a computer that has barely 5,000 primitive ... The computers that formed the basis of the Apollo Guidance and Navigation System (AGS) were at the bleeding edge of technology in ...

British start-up, Apollo Instruments, has meticulously recreated the computer from NASA's 1960s Apollo spacecraft in miniature with its DSKY Moonwatch. The multifunctional timepiece pays homage to the ...

Comparing Historical and Modern Computing The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) used during the first moon landings had 32,768 bits of RAM and 589,824 bits of ROM. In contrast, modern DDR4 RAM sticks ...