Early in the Apollo 13 movie, Lovell (Tom Hanks) is showing off the Saturn V and states that a part of what has made the moon landings possible is a belief that anything is possible, "things like a computer that can fit into a single room, and hold millions of pieces of information".
According to Wikipedia's article on core rope memory and the article on the Apollo Guidance Computer, the Block II AGC had a total storage (ROM plus RAM) of 40,960 16-bit words, or in modern terms 81,920 bytes. (We sent people to the moon with less computer code than is needed on my system to list files in a directory!)
Is there any merit to the statement that the spacecraft computer could hold "millions of pieces of information", or is it simply an attempt at setting the date for when the events took place?