Forrest Heller personal blog
Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)
I think it is healthy to compare historical and modern computing. Let's see how the CPUs contained in recent USB-C wall chargers compare to the power of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC). The Apollo 11 spacecraft carried 3 humans to the moon and back in 1969.
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Hardware & ElectronicsHistory & Retro Computing2023
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 2023 | Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020) by raimue | 502 | 202 |
| Feb 6, 2020 | Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers by indy | 397 | 205 |
| Feb 6, 2020 | Apollo 11 guidance computer vs. USB-C chargers by fanf2 | 61 | 1 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 6 Hacker News comments by 4 different people, from Dec 2020 to Mar 2024.
Most recent:
- Player6225 · Mar 19, 2024
- pabs3 · May 30, 2022
- pabs3 · Mar 5, 2022
- pabs3 · Jan 23, 2022
- randomstring · Dec 18, 2020
- _trampeltier · Dec 18, 2020
