Here is an email that has done the rounds over the past few weeks. It was about the NASA Apollo moon lander module, size of the computer and 64 kb of memory! <br><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Although the
computer was slow, the MIT team developed a robust, real-time multi-tasking operating
system (long before Linux). The </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">system worked, but almost caused the first moon landing
to be aborted in the final minutes before the touchdown. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">For recognising the error code and </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">making the critical decision to continue
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, the mission control expert back on Earth later received
the US Medal of Freedom along with the three Apollo astronauts. It is a true story of some hard core programmers and technicians </font>on a voyage of discovery.<br><br>It is worth reading the blog entry by David McMahon (and link to the ABC Science unit page)
<br> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://david-mcmahon.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://david-mcmahon.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>Regards Roland<br><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead