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[–] 16904980? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

In 1979 the Radio Shack Coco (TRS-80) computers did multi-tasking with only 4k to 32K RAM. It's the software fool. I wrote programs in BASIC back then. Microprocessors have been around since the mid 60's, all a computer is are various processors and ROM, PROM and EPROM chips driven by interrupts. Talking to flat earthers is like talking to a five year old.

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[–] 16905015? [S] ago 

so that's how they flew a golf cart to the moon.........Radio Shack~!!!

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[–] 16905612? ago 

The bloated GUI software you use today is only possible because of massive processing power enabled by millions upon millions of microminiature transistors called Large Scale Integration semiconductors. Computing isn't new; WWII battleships had the electromechanical analog computer,Mark 37, for their fire control systems. Two years before the Apollo missions made their first landing, Texas Instruments created hand held calculators based on transistors. The circuitry in those calculators is interrupt driven and mimics what is in today's laptops and cell phones. By 1973 LSI innovations enabled calculators that are basically what you see today. As for the moon landings:

The Apollo Command Module and the Lunar Module each had a computer (with different software, but the same design) called the Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System (PGNCS, pronounced "pings"). The LM also had a computer which was a part of the Abort Guidance System, to give a backup if the PGNCS failed during the landing.
"Ground systems backed up the CM computer and its associated guidance system so that if the CM system failed, the spacecraft could be guided manually based on data transmitted from the ground," NASA stated. "If contact with the ground were lost, the CM system had autonomous return capability."
Sauce: https://www.space.com/26630-apollo-11-vintage-tech-innovations.html

You think like a child, lacking any understanding - that makes flat earth believable, eh?