Computers of NASA - 1960s

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Uploaded by on Jan 10, 2011

Official NASA film about the development of computers in the U.S. space program

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

  • @MrBennetzen Your cheesy pocket calculator has more computing power - but then again you're not trying to watch youtube or download apps on apollo computers. 

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

  • 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)

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

  • 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) ?

  • i5 2500k smokes dat.

  • @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.

  • @therealandycook No. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War

  • @lenoat702 Strange Game.

    The only winning move is not to play.

    How about a nice game of Chess?

  • @therealandycook Yes, I want to play Thermonuclear War.

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