Happy Birthday ENIAC! 60 Years of the Computing Age

If the transportation industry (let's not even say automobile or aircraft industries) had made the same kind of advancement in 60 years, we would all be zooming around in Jetson-like POFV (Personally-Owned Flying Vehicles), which was actually predicted at the 1940 World's Fair in New York, or beaming from point-to-point via molecular reconstructive transporter beams like on Star Trek!

Hmmmm...maybe Bill Gates IS an alien!

In 1965, I was involved with a computer system that monitored the health and welfare of the ground systems on the S1B launch vehicle. The computer was called the DEE3 and had 4 K of computer memory. Core memory. The core block was about an 8" cube. Our programs were loaded on paper (mylar) tape and were loaded each day. The computer could only hold one program at a time. Ah, yes, the good old days. Also took two racks of equipment, and the data output was a teletype.