
Calculated Discovery
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
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The History of Computers
The Apollo Guidance Computer was used by NASA in 1969 for their Apollo 11 mission. It weighed 50 pounds and was the size of a piece of carry-on luggage. The mobile phone in your pocket is more powerful than that NASA computer, 32,000 times faster. But there's another old computer worth mentioning - one built over 2000 years ago.
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