Scarab mentioned that his first computer had something like 146 time the power of Univac, well let's go back a bit farther to to the grand ancestor of all computers ENIAC and was a huge beast! it was 1,900 cubic feet of black-enameled sheet metal and bakelite, 18,000 vacuum tubes, 6,000 switchs, 70,000 resistors, 5 million soldered joints and miles of wiring. it weighted 30 tons and used 174 kilowats of electricty. On the 50th aniversary of its creation two U Penn students duplicated the machine on a microchip the 1/4 the size of a postage stamp. the current $4 pocket calculator has more computing power than eniac had. We've clrarly come a LONG way since then :-)

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