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(128,519 posts)and I think a missed a couple of episodes but did see the rest - and mainly because a few years before that came out, i had a work-related trip to Galveston, TX and the last day when we got out early, a bunch of us drove up to Houston to visit the Johnson Space Center. There was a shuttle up at the time we went so we couldn't go tour Mission Control but it was around when the movie "Apollo 13" had come out, so that (and the movie "Twister" ) was all the buzz at the Center.
They had the Apollo 17 command module there on display (I think that was the one that was there back in 1995/1996 and is still there as I understand) -
I remember someone saying while we were there (or maybe it was narrative that went along with that exhibit) that the amount of memory that the command module systems used back then was what you might typically see for a (digital) wrist watch - at least the ones from the mid-'90s (which have morphed into stuff like Apple watches, etc).