There is more processing power in a TI-83 calculator than in the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon

Yes, believe it or not, the guidance computer from the Apollo 11 mission ran at 1.024 MHz, about 1/6th of the processing power of a TI-83 calculator. One is used by students to play Tetris, the other took humans to the moon!
There is more processing power in a TI-83 calculator than in the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon!
There is more processing power in a TI-83 calculator than in the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon!

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