[noiseman]

AND did it with a collection of computers that together weren’t half as powerful as an iphone.

And that actually vastly overestimates the Apollo computers’ power. An iPhone is more powerful than a 1980s Cray supercomputer. The Apollo computers were no more powerful than a late-1970s programmable calculator.

[GOPJ]

An iPhone is more powerful than a 1980s Cray supercomputer. The Apollo computers were no more powerful than a late-1970s programmable calculator.

That makes the space program at the time all the more amazing.

[bigbob]

In modern terms’, “Build me a lunar flight control system, here’s an Arduino Uno”.