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To: Phil(bullrider) who wrote (12164)10/25/1999 12:15:00 AM
From: Paul K  Respond to of 62578
 
"Where a computer like 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



To: Phil(bullrider) who wrote (12164)10/25/1999 10:15:00 PM
From: EddieMacG  Respond to of 62578
 
Idiot stuff/Navy Washington: "ABC 123C replaces JKL 122B which was neither printed, nor distributed" ; Idiot stuff/Goverment clerk type, when asked why she was speeding home last evening on the B/W Parkway, explained " I left my glasses on my desk and couldn't see well, so I wanted to get home before I had an accident !"