Technology from the days when bigger meant better.
1944.
Engineer Dr. John von Neumann with the Harvard Mark I, an electro-mechanical computer.
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1944.
The Colossus, used by British codebreakers to decrypt coded German messages at the end of WW2.
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1946.
ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose computer, weighed 27 tons. Among other things, the so-called "Giant Brain" was used for calculations for the development of the hydrogen bomb.
Source: ftp.arl.mil / via: linuxshellaccount.blogspot.co.uk
1949.
Analog Computing Machine, an early version of the modern computer. It's located in the then-Engine Research Building at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio, which is now part of NASA.
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