Worked in the program, Sonny Jim. Knew a couple of guys who could speak digital better than english and that was back when you had to do it with actual switches. Between the two of us, only one knows what he's talking about. The other is just tattooed white trash.
Seems like there must be a whole lot of us white trash types out here. Because, legend has it that the digital computer was invented in the basement of the Physics Building on the campus of Iowa State University, sometime around 1940.
I seem to recall that the transistor was invented a few years later at Bell Labs.
So, by all means, please enlighten all us poor white trash types as to just how the billions spent on the manned space program are responsible for the PCs on which we bitch. And, while you're at it, clue us in on exactly why the contributions of the space program to our bitchin' machines would never have been accomplished if left to the private sector.