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By his estimates, the Anker PowerPort Atom PD 2 USB-C Wall Charger is 563 times faster than the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer. But in NASA's defense, the Guidance Computer was completely crash-proof.
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 Apollo 11 crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but there was a crucial "fourth crew member" on board: the Apollo Guidance Computer.
An Apple developer has argued in a new blog post that a USB-C charger has more processing power than the Apollo 11’s guidance computer. Anker’s charger is 563 times faster than the computer ...
Few were more nervous than the young computer programmer who had written the code for the landing. On the Apollo 11's 50th anniversary, WSJ sat down with programmer Don Eyles.
NASA's Apollo spacecraft had briefcase-size computers that for their day would normally have filled two rooms. Apollo Instruments has been able to shrink the Apollo Guidance Computer even more.
A former NASA intern uploaded the source code for the computer that guided the Apollo 11 moon landing to Github last week, where coders with a bit of time on their hands combed through it to ...
A detailed description of what the launch and landing of Apollo 11 were like for many of the 400,000 insiders who worked on the most famous space exploration mission in history.
The system responsible for the first moon landing is now readily available online, after an enterprising former NASA intern uploaded the Apollo Guidance Computer code to Github this week. One ...