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The computer that guided Apollo 11 had about 4 kilobytes of working memory.

The Apollo Guidance Computer had 2,048 words of erasable memory, each 16 bits, plus about 36,000 words of fixed memory. A modern phone has millions of times more.

Source: Wikipedia: Apollo Guidance Computer

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