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Apollo 11 did not use vacuum tubes. It used microprocessors and integrated circuits, which contain no vacuum tubes.
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The Apollo 11 spacecraft and Saturn V rocket did not use any vacuum tubes for their computation or control systems. Instead, they used semiconductor technology. The onboard computer for Apollo 11 was called the Apollo Guidance Computer, and it used approximately 4,000 integrated circuits, which were considered to be cutting-edge technology at the time.
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