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Enthusiast ‘lands’ on the moon using hardware from the 1980s

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Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Mere weeks after successfully using a ZX Spectrum to fly a simulated spacecraft, space enthusiast and YouTuber Scott Manley have successfully “landed” on the moon using the home computer from the 1980s. Of course, Manley didn’t have an actual lunar lander with him, so he used the 2015 spaceflight simulator Kerbal Space Program, using a ZX Spectrum to control the spacecraft. For those who are unfamiliar with the Spectrum, it’s a home computer built by UK company Sinclair Research, released in 1982. This 8-bit device had a Z80A CPU that ran at 3.5 MHz with either 16, 48, or 128 KB of memory. It ran on the Sinclair BASIC operating system and was known for introducing kids to gaming and programming in the 80s because of its relatively low price.…

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