anne-ology wrote:

 >        true.
 > 
 >        I thoroughly enjoyed the way these massive machines were portrayed
 > in the movies -
 >             filling an entire room, whirrin' with lights a-flashin'   ;-)

I worked several years with large computers (CDC Cyber series).
One of my old professors used to say, years later: "First we had computers 
filling a whole cabinet, with the documentation on a card. Now we have 
computers on a card, with the documentation filling a cabinet."
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <[email protected]>
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