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Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

Elias Mårtenson @loke

@natecull I was half way into writing a response pointing out the fact that the AGC had 48 kwords of storage. Then I realised you explicitly said RAM. So you're right.

But, just to give me a reason to comment on one of the more interesting machines of the 60's I will just mention that the word length of the AGC was 15 bits, so it was a bit more storage than 4 k may seem like.