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# CDC on the Moon?
In 1969 Forrest 'Frosty' Myers tried to get a tiny artwork installed on Apollo 12. When NASA didn't give him definitive permission, he persuaded a Grumman engineer to secretly place the tiny wafer onto the moon lander. Here's the wafer, with designs by six prominent artists of the day:



Andy Warhol contributed the top left design - clearly a CDC!

...Or is this a lie? The artwork exists, but there's no way to verify that it's on the moon without going and looking.
(, Tue 10 Feb 2015, 11:34, archived)
# incorrect number of pubes per ball
Andy Warhol, you are a rank amateur
(, Tue 10 Feb 2015, 11:40, archived)
# Or shaven
(, Tue 10 Feb 2015, 12:37, archived)
# :)
(, Tue 10 Feb 2015, 11:46, archived)
# it ran off 3 sim cards? thats fucknificent
(, Tue 10 Feb 2015, 11:48, archived)
# A SIM card is probably more powerful than the Apollo on-board computer

They certainly have more storage: the AGC had just 4K of RAM!
(, Tue 10 Feb 2015, 12:01, archived)
# The Apollo missions get more awesome with each piece of new information! 4k?!!
(, Tue 10 Feb 2015, 15:50, archived)
# The Byte to Weight ratio was also pretty high
Those computers were huge.

ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-mit-apollo-guidance.html


It is also the tech they are made from is amazing... rope core memory!
(, Tue 10 Feb 2015, 18:00, archived)
# Fake!
Shadows are wrong. And too brown.
(, Tue 10 Feb 2015, 17:46, archived)
# Willing to go take a look.
Someone fetch us a couple of crates of Skull Attack, a scooter and a ramp.
(, Tue 10 Feb 2015, 18:59, archived)