Comment by recursivedoubts
Comment by recursivedoubts 2 months ago
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
Comment by recursivedoubts 2 months ago
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
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.