my grand father was a chemist who analyzed the moons rocks after they were brought back on an apollo missio\n.<br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:57 PM, KevinO <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kevin@kevino.org" target="_blank">kevin@kevino.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

On 06/13/2013 03:49 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:<br>
&gt; I read somewhere that a modern scientific calculator is more powerful than the<br>
&gt; computers the astronauts in the Apollo program used in the craft they were riding<br>
&gt; in to the moon.<br>
&gt;<br>
My (now dated) TI-92 Plus and TI-89 calculators have basically the same processor<br>
and clock rate as the first Unix machine I used... which was a lot more powerful<br>
than the Apollo computers.<br>
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--<br>
KevinO<br>
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