These are Actual Historical Facts,But Your Brain Doesn’t Want You to Believe Them

A Calculator Has More Power than the Apollo 11 Computer

Strange but true fact: there’s more processing power in a TI-83 calculator than in the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.

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The computer that guided the Apollo 11 mission ran at 1.024 MHz, which is about 1/6th of the processing power of a TI-83 calculator.

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