RE: Computer from NASA’s Apollo program reprogrammed to mine bitcoin
Thought this was cool, maybe I can rig this old Commodore 64 I’ve got boxed away in my attic to mine haha
“Among the many technological breakthroughs of NASA’s Apollo project to land a man on the Moon was the Apollo Guidance Computer that flew onboard Apollo spacecraft. In an era when most computers were refrigerator-sized—if not room-sized—the AGC weighed only about 70 pounds. It was one of the first computers to use integrated circuits.
A team of computer historians got its hands on one of the original AGCs and got it working. A member of the team, Ken Shirriff, then decided to see if the computer could be used for bitcoin mining.”
