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TIL that the Apollo Guidance Computer, used in the moon landings, had 64 Kilobytes of memory and a .043 Megahertz processor. The iPhone 11 has 4 Gigabytes of memory and a 2.5 Gigahertz processor, more than 58,000 times as powerful.

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