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• Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
  Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949...
• 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 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons.
  -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949 editio...
• Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weight 1 1/2 tons.
  -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949...
• 0200 Have you ever owned more than 1 computer? 0201 .
  .. 4 computers? 0202 ... 16 computers? -- from THE HACKER TEST...
• The future is no more uncertain than the present.
• down 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say (unless of course you were expecting to use it)
  and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on....
• DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide.
  Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form....
• The future is much more difficult to predict than the past.
• You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act ii, Sc. 1...