Mike Raiford wrote:

> ;) I remember as a kid in the 80's walking into an office that had a 
> computer room. A real-life room-sized mainframe. One wall had a bank of 
> tape machines, the CPU was a box the size of a Smart car sort of in the 
> middle of the room, and there was a huge array of disks that took up the 
> rest of the room.
> 
> All controlled by a tiny terminal in the corner flanked by an 8" floppy 
> drive, and a few other binders and such.
> 
> It was quite neat to see!

I guess it's like the steam engines of old; today we have much more 
powerful machines that take up a fraction of the power and space. But 
still, few things are more impressive than watching a 50T steam engine 
in motion...

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