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The Apollo 11 computer was weaker than a greeting card

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Humanity's greatest exploratory achievement was mathematically calculated by a machine dumber than a piece of singing cardboard. The Apollo Guidance Computer ran on just kilobytes of memory, proving that you don't need a supercomputer to achieve the impossible—you just need a bunch of genius engineers doing the actual heavy lifting.

The Apollo 11 computer was weaker than a greeting card
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