I was reading an article on the computer in NASA's first lunar lander a few days ago. I imagine it was a wonder of technology in its day, with 4 KB of RAM and a whopping 74-KB hard drive. Probably cost millions.

Then I came across this: World's Most Powerful Computer. For Science! (Well, there is one faster. But it is at a U.S. nuke test site, so don't count on getting access...)

Highlights include 362 TB of RAM and 10,750 TB of disk space. I don't think they mention the cost. Maybe, in another 40 years, we'll have that in a desktop? And the 8 GB of RAM and 1.28 TB drive on this computer will sound as pathetic as the 1969 lander's computer does today?

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