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Originally Posted by guns3545
OMG, I'm having flashbacks to 1953-57 when I carried one similiar in a leather case attached to my belt. Now Physics Majors carry Laptops or Tablets containing more computer in those tiny packages than existed in the entire world in the 50s.
John
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As a summer intern back then, I worked at EMI in England. They had an ENIAC computer, the first computer to cross the Atlantic. It was the size of a large room, had almost 20,000 vacuum tubes and worked less than 50% of the time (the vacuum tubes kept burning out). It had less computing capacity than some of the toys my grandchildren play with. Regards, Norm