my grand father was a chemist who analyzed the moons rocks after they were
brought back on an apollo missio\n.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:57 PM, KevinO <
kevin@kevino.org> wrote:
> On 06/13/2013 03:49 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> > I read somewhere that a modern scientific calculator is more powerful
> than the
> > computers the astronauts in the Apollo program used in the craft they
> were riding
> > in to the moon.
> >
> My (now dated) TI-92 Plus and TI-89 calculators have basically the same
> processor
> and clock rate as the first Unix machine I used... which was a lot more
> powerful
> than the Apollo computers.
>
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> KevinO
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