Tormod Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 I am writing a Christmas quiz for the Norwegian Space Centre website and found a very interesting article about the computers used on the Apollo lunar missions. http://www.avocetsystems.com/company/articles/eu/eu23.htm It's hilarious to read about this stuff - imagine leaving your life in the "hands" of equipment like this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 I heard something about that, my calculator is more powerful than the on-board computer of an Apollo Rocket, its probably hundreds if not thousands of times faster and has hundreds of times the storage capacity... and yet a PDA runs faster than the fastest computer at the time that article was written, about 433 MHZ. You know, I would never buy a 2003 BMW because they ran Windows on their on-board computer, they switched to Linux, i believe, after an incident with a prime minister of one of these random countries in Europe, they were going to anyways. I cant imagine flying to the moon on an undebugged, non error handling, untested software... I'd wanna go over their source, test it myself for a few weeks before i even begin thinkign about trusting it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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