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excerpt: "As I write this, it has been 25 years since we landed a man on the moon. Can you believe it? And when did most of us start using computers on a regular basis? Wasn’t it only 12-14 years ago? And what were these great tools that we had been handed? A 6 inch square…"
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# Computers in Space

As I write this, it has been 25 years since we landed a man on the moon. Can you believe it? And when did most of us start using computers on a regular basis? Wasn’t it only 12-14 years ago? And what were these great tools that we had been handed? A 6 inch square plastic box about 1 inch high with 1-2 KILOBYTES OF RAM!