Det hade ju inte varit nån idé att ha en skärm - det fanns inget att visa. Ett exempel på världsledande datakraft från den tiden:
According to FlightGlobal (“Serious About Aviation”), the Apollo Guidance Computer, or AGC, had just 64KB of memory and only 0.043 MHz of processing power. That was enormous at the time, of course, but compare those specs with those of modern netbooks—the pint-sized laptops that are considered underpowered by today’s computing standards.