But it was on Apollo 11 that the AGC really showed its stuff. During the historic descent to the Sea of Tranquility, the computer suddenly had a fit due to the rendezvous radar being accidentally ...

This seems surprising. After all, when we reflect on this historic event, it is often said that we now have more computing power in our pocket than the computer aboard Apollo 11 did. But is that true?

The computer was fairly compact for its time ... "There's very good memories," Hamilton said of working on the Apollo 11 project. "There's the drama you think of that you went through together ...

The charger currently juicing up your MacBook Pro is probably more powerful than the Apollo 11's onboard computer that guided the first astronauts to the moon. "I think it is healthy to compare ...

After all, when we reflect on this historic event, it is often said that we now have more computing power in our pocket than the computer aboard Apollo 11 did. But is that true? And, if so ...

But the technological innovations demanded by the Apollo 11 mission strapped a rocket to the revolution, leaving behind the infrastructure and an economy that ensured the now-everyday computer ...

But first, it might help to know a bit about the computer. Apollo 11’s onboard guidance computer had a processing speed of 1 MHz, and had about 4 kilobytes of reusable memory. The original ...

The overview: Apollo 11 lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy ... said in an interview. "The onboard computer was taking them down into a site that was not quite what they wanted, and Neil ...

Fifty years ago this week, the Apollo 11 astronauts -- Neil Armstrong ... A "12-02" alarm meant that the lunar module's computer was overloaded. If the problem could not be corrected, the landing ...

This seems surprising. After all, when we reflect on this historic event, it is often said that we now have more computing power in our pocket than the computer aboard Apollo 11 did. But is that true?