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> Better than integrated circuits? Funny you mention that. The Apollo Guidance Computer was the first computer to use integrated circuits and is often used as
by GuB-42 3y ago
> Better than integrated circuits?
Funny you mention that. The Apollo Guidance Computer was the first computer to use integrated circuits and is often used as an example of the major innovations the Apollo program contributed to.
- pfdietz 3y agoWe'd have had ICs without manned spaceflight; they were necessary for the Minuteman II, for example, as well as terrestrial avionics and commercial uses. Without them, all users of digital electronics would quickly have hit a complexity and reliability wall.