revolutionary computers

It's insane to think where technology started to where it is now, as I type on my mac book pro 13" and look at the revolutionary ENIAC that could only make 357 multiplication operations per second! Crazy! To think that the ENIAC weighed 30 tons absolutely blows my mind. I can't even fathom how large 30 tons is. Its really cool to see how important the vacuum tube was to the creating of the computer in this machine,  using 17,478  thousand of them. I can't imagine how much upkeep was used for this computer.
to think that from 1964 to 1970- the size of the computer went from gigantic (ENIAC)

 to normal sized (Data point 2200) .

Looking at all the computers the evolution is interesting.
it starts from this giant machine < to a single user computer with a full working GUI
Xerox really missed the boat with this invention.
To think that they came up with one of the first computers and decided that the idea was not going to make it in the world was pretty stubborn and downright dumb. If only they had stayed with producing the PARC Alto, the company would be truly a force to reckon with in today behind Apple and PC. It's amazing to think that one idea that seemed so trivial to Xerox at the time is now the idea that is revolutionizing the way we live our lives- with computers. Looking at this timeline definitely makes me appreciate using my mac, that I've broken 3 times now? a lot more then before.
Computer evolution is almost as cool as human evolution ;)

IBM really seems like it took the forefront for a lot of the early computers. The company seemed to always have its two cents into the design and aspect of future computers. It seems to be less of a competitor today which kinda makes me sad because i feel like IBM computers strive for quality where as PCs are about quantity and Apple is about design. My brother used an IBM laptop for the longest time, and it was always heavy duty, sturdy and never failed.

to think that from the ENIAC came the Roadrunner - although larger it could process "- more than a quadrillion floating point operations per second." THATS CRAZY! it goes to show how IBM is focusing on it's processing speed as most important during this time :)