2007-05-22 05:50:27 · 5 answers · asked by egglxi 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
They had no hard drive. Hard drives weighed hundreds of pounds back then. They had 74 kilobytes of core memory
2007-05-22 05:57:29 · answer #1 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There WERE hard drives back then (see the source), but they would have all been on the ground, along with the room size computers that did the calculations to build and fly the space craft. There was very little computer power and no hard drives on board the space craft. All the calculations were done on the ground and the results sent up by radio.
But I don't know of any accounting of the total amount of space used.
2007-05-22 13:13:36 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 1969, personal computers did not exist. The smallest computers took up half a room, and in 1969 they were making the transition from vacuum tubes to transistors (which came before microchips). So NASA, in launching the first mission to the moon, did not use hard drives as we now know them.
2007-05-22 13:04:07 · answer #3 · answered by allenbmeangene 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Back then, nonvolatile data storage was done with big magnetic tape reels, magnetic drums, or very large swappable disk packs that are nothing like the sealed HDDs of today.
The first sealed HDDs of the type we are familiar with today came out in 1973 from Winchester, well after the first 1969 moon landing.
2007-05-22 13:14:24 · answer #4 · answered by thddspc 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not as much as a personal computer or even a calculator
2007-05-22 12:54:44 · answer #5 · answered by shea b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋