Just to give some of the younger generation who never saw anything but a chip an idea of what computers actually used to use. Some of the early memory modules we used would take three people to put one in. Two to lift and hold it and one to fasten it. And they held about 56K. I saw on the History channel the other day that all the computers combined that they used when Apollo 13 had it's problems going to the moon had less computing power than a good PC now. Technology is now measured in minutes and not days or hours.
I am still waiting for them to put in fiber optic here but it won't be done in my lifetime. We did put in fiber optic cables between some of the computers while I was still working and that was as far as it went. One fiber optic cable about the size of your thumb with all the shielding and 7 optic strands replaced two 3500 pair cables.
Ron
