Apollo Guidance Computer flew humans to the Moon with just 2,048 words of RAM
cneuralnetwork · x · 2026-11-06
Fun engineering trivia: the Apollo Guidance Computer that navigated astronauts to the Moon had just 2,048 words of erasable memory, with programs stored in 36,864 words of fixed core rope memory. Engineers managed spacecraft navigation on this tiny budget — a stark contrast to today's gigabytes of RAM that we still manage to exhaust.
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