Apollo and the Muses

The Apollo Moon Landing used a Command Module Computer (CMC) designed by MIT and manufactured by Raytheon as well Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) running a RTOS (Real Time Operating System) having 64  Kb of memory and a speed of 0.043MHz.

The later was known to have crashed (well, produced an error) at least once, the "1202."

In addition to the on-board technology, a single IBM System/360 Model 75 was used by NASA to calculate the basic trajectory. The programs developed (by some 3,500 employees) consisted of 6 MB of code. Compare this to the size of your Facebook app.

Apollo

Calliope	Epic poetry	Writing tablet
Clio	History	Scrolls
Euterpe	Music, Song, and Elegiac Poetry	Aulos (an ancient Greek musical instrument like a flute)
Erato	Lyric poetry	Cithara (an ancient Greek musical instrument in the lyre family)
Melpomene	Tragedy	Tragic mask
Polyhymnia	Hymns	Veil
Terpsichore	Dance	Lyre
Thalia	Comedy	Comic mask
Urania	Astronomy	Globe and compass

JP 2015/09/12
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