Forty years ago man landed on the moon. Wow! – by Hank Mancini

I am old enough to remember listening to the moon landing. It was truly exciting and I was proud of our country’s accomplishment.

It amazes me that we could send men to the moon and return them to earth safely in a time before we have many of the things we take for granted today. In July of 1969 we did not have:

• Personal computers – The Apollo Guidance Computer that helped men get to and from the moon only had 4KB of RAM and 32KB of ROM
• ATM’s (first ATM installed September 1969)
• Cable Television
• Cordless phones
• Cell phones
• Email
• WWW.anything – no worldwide web and only a rudimentary internet called ARPNET
• CD’s
• DVD’s
• I-pods and MP3 players

In terms of technology, 1969 seems like the dark ages, yet we sent men to the moon and they returned to earth safely!