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"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, March 1949

Spot on. Computers in 1955 did just that.
 

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