<div dir="ltr"><div>"And their backup computer was an HP handheld calculator, HP 67 if I recall<br>
correctly."<br><br></div>From the Wikipedia article on the Apollo Guidance Computer:<br><br><span>"The first advanced desktop calculators hit 
the market in roughly the same time frame, with scientific and then 
programmable pocket calculators appearing during the following decade. 
The first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_calculator" title="Programmable calculator" target="_blank">programmable handheld calculator</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-65" title="HP-65" target="_blank">HP-65</a>, was tried on backup computations aboard the Apollo Command/Service Module in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo-Soyuz_Test_Project" title="Apollo-Soyuz Test Project" target="_blank">Apollo-Soyuz Test Project</a> in 1975."<br><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer</a><br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">You were close. Good memory!<br><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">-Phil<br><br>"Quini, quidi, quici" - I came, I saw, I played a little quidditch. <br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Bill Nelson via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> Apollo onboard guidance computer.....    .043MHz  and 64 kilobytes of memory<br>
>  ......and weighed in at a hefty 70lbs......any wonder you see them using<br>
> their slide rules in  the Apollo 13 movie?<br>
<br>
And their backup computer was an HP handheld calculator, HP 67 if I recall<br>
correctly.<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
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