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First generation computers (1940’s) used mechanical switches called relays. On one occasion, when an engineer took a failed relay apart, found a dead insect jammed between the switch contacts – giving rise to the term “bug” used to refer to a problem with computer equipment.
In 1975, an IBM mainframe computer that could perform 10 million instructions per second cost about £10,000,000. Only twenty years later, in 1995, a computer video game capable of performing 500 million instructions per second, cost only $500.
Quote: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943.
It is estimated that a gram of DNA can hold as much information as a trillion (1012) CD’s.