[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.

[George from New England]

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

Nobody back then knew anything any better than ‘state of the art’ in 1969. Who knew how fast it would advance or how far ?

The 1985 Back to the Future movie saw the future ... Fax machines on every corner — just like phone booths at the time !!