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| May 10, 2022 at 22:01 | comment | added | Joe W | @DavidHammen You are correct that they didn't exist at that time but the government spent a lot of money to develop smaller computers that could run on less power. It was these developments that help spark the computer industry and lead us to what we have today. | |
| May 10, 2022 at 21:40 | comment | added | David Hammen | Minicomputers didn't exist in the early 1960s, which was when the Apollo computers and flight software were designed. It typically takes many years between avionics design and first flight. The first computer that could be called a minicomputer was the PDP-8, which was released in 1965, and it "only" cost $18,000 back then. (That would however be $164,288 in 2022 dollars.) We also used paper tape in addition to punch cards. Your last quote is a bit over top. | |
| May 10, 2022 at 19:44 | history | answered | Joe W | CC BY-SA 4.0 |