Comment by lm28469
How much would it cost to do it again in the same exact way though ?
It basically amounted to a trash can with an apple watch on top of a V2 rocket
How much would it cost to do it again in the same exact way though ?
It basically amounted to a trash can with an apple watch on top of a V2 rocket
The latest (series 9) Apple Watch has (up to) 2 GB of RAM and can do billions of instructions per second.
In 1966, the mainframe to use was the CDC 6600, able to do ~3 million instructions per second (MIPS), with kilobytes, possibly a megabyte of RAM. The US government had a good number of mainframes, of a wide variety, but they wouldn't be able to reach the Apple Watch's computing power.
i would bet money that an apple watch has more computing power than was available to all of NASA, and maybe the entire US government, at the time