NASA’s Nuclear-Powered Mars Rover Curiosity Essentially Has The Same Brain As A Bondi Blue iMac G3

Cult of Mac
By John BrownleeAug 6, 2012, 1:35 pm120 pts
Here’s an interesting little factoid for you. The Curiosity rover — which landed last night on Mars, remote controlled by a team of NASA scientists armed with MacBook Pros — runs on a RAD750 radiation-hardened single board computer. This computer, in turn, is based on the IBM PowerPC 750 CPU, which Intel first…

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