From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Apr 14 2001 - 14:30:33 MDT
A bold prediction of a 20 fold improvement in miniaturization was made
in the magazine Popular Mechanics in 1949.
"Where a calculation on the ENIAC requires 18,000 vacuum tubes and
weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes
and weigh only 1.5 tons."
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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