Sá þetta á digg í morgun og fannst þetta helvíti áhugavert. NASA heldur sig ennþá við sömu gömlu tölvurnar sem hafa verið í geimskutlunum þeirra síðan frá 1990 (tæknilega séð 1982 en þær voru uppfærðar 1990).
The IBM AP-101 computers originally had about 424 kilobytes of magnetic core memory each. The CPU could process about 400,000 instructions per second. They have no hard disk drive, but load software from tape cartridges.
In 1990 the original computers were replaced with an upgraded model AP-101S, which has about 2.5 times the memory capacity (about 1 megabyte) and three times the processor speed (about 1.2 million instructions per second). The memory was changed from magnetic core to semiconductor with battery backup.
Kannski maður hugsi sig aðeins um núna áður en maður henndir gamla pentium draslinu
