
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.
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Tue 10 Feb 2015, 11:34,
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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.

Andy Warhol, you are a rank amateur
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Tue 10 Feb 2015, 11:40,
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They certainly have more storage: the AGC had just 4K of RAM!

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Tue 10 Feb 2015, 15:50,
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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!
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Tue 10 Feb 2015, 18:00,
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ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-mit-apollo-guidance.html
It is also the tech they are made from is amazing... rope core memory!