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Apr 28, 2020, 11:59 am

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Originally Posted by WilcoRoger

Your TV has vastly more computing power and memory than the computer that took Neil Armstrong & co to the Moon and back.

For those of us who still remember the Commodore-64 - the Voyager probes (now beyond the Solar system and still alive!) had less computing power than this icon of the 80's.

And Space Shuttles had 8086 (think that was 8 MHz). Even an old cell phone has more power.

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