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To: Gay State Conservative
It's said that the typical cellphone of today has as much computing power as did the computer onboard Apollo 11.

More like 500 times as much.

The following is from One Giant Leap: The Apollo Guidance Computer


Instruction Set: Approximately 20 instructions; 100 noun-verb pairs, data up to triple-precision

Word Length: 16 bits (14 bits + sign + parity)

Memory: ROM (rope core) 36K words; RAM (core) 2K words

Disk: None

I/O: DSKY (two per spacecraft)

Performance: approx. Add time - 20s

Basic machine cycle: 2.048 MHz

Technology: RTL bipolar logic (flat pack)

Size: AGC - 24" x 12.5" x 6" (HWD); DSKY - 8" x 8" x 7" (HWD)

Weight: AGC - 70 lbs; DSKY - 17.5 lbs

Number produced: AGC - 75; DSKY: 138

Cost: Unknown.

Power consumption: Operating: 70W @ 28VDC; Standby 15.0

The Droid RAZR has a 1Ghz processor -- about 500 times faster -- the computational speed (since it is geometric) of your PDA is probably about 5,000 - 10,000 as fast. And they used storage in KB. We do GB so you probably have millions more storage capacity than the Apollo 11 (AND ALL ITS GROUND BRETHEREN).

9 posted on 05/25/2013 10:56:23 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (To attempt to have intercourse with a hornet's nest is a very bad idea)
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To: freedumb2003

This is why I chuckle at the flame wars between apple/ Android/ windows/ Linux. They are all amazing devices.


16 posted on 05/25/2013 11:06:55 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (President Obma; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
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