Apollo guidance software fit in eight kilobytes · Proposed air date:
The Apollo guidance system astonishes Dr. Dave because its moon mission software operated with only eight kilobytes of memory, less than a modern printer driver. He uses the comparison to say that a forward looking industry can forget both how far it has come and the developments that made the progress possible.
This excerpt runs from 4:24.354 to 5:22.910 within its preserved source recording.
Proposed recording date: 2006-09-09. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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