The graveyard of once-high-flying stocks includes Digital Equipment, Apollo Computer, Data General and Silicon Graphics (now SGI).

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Microprocessor-based computers grew up into teenage thugs and gunned down the likes of Apollo Computer, Wang and Digital Equipment.

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His father was an early backer of Quantum, Apollo Computer and LSI Logic.

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In 1981, Apollo Computer UK Ltd. began operations.

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Well, the first iPhone was more powerful than the Apollo guidance computer used to send the first man to the moon.

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By today's standards the Apollo 11 onboard computer was pretty crude, but it was ahead of its time and was crucial for America's successful Moon landings.

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