Quote for the day :-)

[slashbluegreen]

Mon Aug 1 11:35:08 CEST 2005

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Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and
weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes
and perhaps weight 1 1/2 tons.
-- Popular Mechanics, March 1949



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I always thought my ibook was too heavy ;-).

Comments

[lostcatboy.livejournal.com]

That doesn't really matter so much; don't forget that there's only a world market for about five computers anyways. (Thomas Watson, IBM Chairman, 1943)