Re: [OM] I'm back, with an E-410!

[Chuck Norcutt]

The ENIAC comment took me down a mental trip on the way-back machine. 
This is the first computer I ever saw.  Announced 5 years after the PM 
prediction but probably still well more than 1-1/2 tons and definitely 
more than 1000 tubes.
<http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP705.html>
And this one is the first one I ever wrote a program for.  No tubes. :-)
<http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP1440.html>

Chuck Norcutt

Jan Steinman wrote:

> :::: 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 weigh only 1 1/2 tons. -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949
> :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/99AP35>
> 
> 
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