They were using slide rules. They did not have computers on board. It was amazing. And they could have died a thousand different ways. It was truly amazing.
I hadn’t heard that one but yeah, probably slide rules in the capsule. That said, there were lots of computers on the ground at Cape Canaveral. But again - all together not half as powerful as an iphone.
Analog computing is way faster than than digital typing....
“They were using slide rules. They did not have computers on board. It was amazing. And they could have died a thousand different ways. It was truly amazing.”
They did have computers, but primitive as hell, and it took super-human skills to squeeze the code to fit the tiny memory.
Actually they did have crude computers on board.🤔
There’s no question that it was a dangerous adventure. Musk makes a good point. We went to the moon in a ship made of tin foil, hardwired with cathode ray tubes and slide rules. It’s amazing what you can get done with a national focus and neverending truckloads of cash.