Tag: iMac G3

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover runs on processors used in 1990s Apple iMacs

Tuesday, March 2, 2021 10:38 am13 Comments

The same processor that powered Apple’s iMac computers from the late 1990s is being used to run NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover …

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity essentially has same brain as Apple’s Bondi Blue iMac G3

Monday, August 6, 2012 5:28 pmMonday, August 6, 201227 Comments

The Curiosity rover — which landed last night on Mars, remote controlled by a team of NASA scientists…