Computers of NASA - 1960s

[StaffSergeantPepper]

All this "amazing technology,"...I'm afraid, Dave.

[francais70]

I would like to know the software Colossus for Apollo project , did it been programmed in Octal . In the sixties did they used the registers word or Dword (Hexadecimal) ?

[wootlanter]

i5 2500k smokes dat.

[MrBennetzen]

Is it true that today's cell phones have more computing power then the computer onboard the Apollo Command Module?

[therealandycook]

Would you like to play a game?

[lenoat702]

@therealandycook Yes, I want to play Thermonuclear War.

[therealandycook]

@lenoat702 Strange Game.

The only winning move is not to play.

How about a nice game of Chess?

[lenoat702]

@therealandycook No. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War

[bjc2]

Ummm.... even player pianos need to be tuned. You'd think NASA would know that.

[cobrachoppergirl]

Computers never make mistakes

[Roodosutaa]

So NASA engineers had been composing game music for Nintendo 15 years ahead of time

[ewaf88]

Very interesting - I wonder if the computer simulations inspired the designers on 2001 (with special note to the Pan Am docking sequence with the space station)

[nik282000]

@ewaf88 If you have read any Arthur C Clarke books you might think it was the other way round.

[ewaf88]

@nik282000 Hi tried to send you a link - but type in "See It Now: Jay W. Forrester and the WHIRLWIND Computer" It's from 1951 and might have been that starting point of computer graphic display ideas

[gtwiggy]

Its beautiful to see that today my Ipod Touch has the power of Nasa Computers in 60's and 70's.

[newwatch51]

@gtwiggy Your iPod is actually MUCH more powerful. I suspect that my TI-84 (8-bit, 15MHz processor) is about as powerful as the computers in this video.

[SuperBunkerbuster]

@newwatch51 Nasa's computers were more powerful than your TI-84. The board computer of Apollo missions could be compared with a TI-83 (but with less RAM and ROM) in term of calculation possibilities.

I don't think your TI-84 can run a 3D space simulator like we can see at 7:10

[newwatch51]

@SuperBunkerbuster Perhaps not, although you'd be surprised at the sorts of programs people have designed for the TI-84. I have a program installed that can graph functions in 3 dimensions, but I do agree that many of the 3D simulations in this video would not be rendered anywhere near as quickly on a TI-84.

[RGAF1987]

Man, women back then had HUGE hairstyles.

[osgeld]

I dont think they could have found a more out of tune piano, but thats nasa for you look at all this awesomeness, nevermind its sour

[sayrith]

@osgeld gives you that timely feel

[Abrahandsome3200]

Wow thats a big ass Ipod

[gnossticc]

Amazing that we today can have on oue desktops computers billions of times more powerful and complex than those used in the space program back then.

I wonder what computers they use today in the space program! And what secrets they have that they won't reveal to us due to secutiry reasons!