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Re: Commodore Computers and the Lunar Landings
« on: June 30, 2004, 03:42:42 PM »
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PMC wrote:
OT:  I read somewhere that the engine management computer in a Ford Fiesta has more computing power than those early Apollo computers!  

Food for thought?

when we were making the Effects for "From the Earth to the Moon", we would sometimes have a good laugh at the fact that we were using computers (including the amiga4000 in the office!) that were more complex and faster, etc to SIMULATE going to the moon than had actually been used to GET to the moon.
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