John Chapman on Nostr: Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 ...
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
—POPULAR MECHANICS, 1949
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