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Some history

Some history (cont'd)

Vacuum tubes

Vacuum tubes (cont'd)

Vacuum tubes (cont'd)

Transistors

Transistors (cont'd)

Magnetic cores

Chips

Chips (cont'd)

Chips (cont'd)

Chips (cont'd)

Chips (cont'd)

Chips (cont'd)

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Computers (cont'd)

Computers (cont'd)

Computers (cont'd)

Computers (cont'd)

Future trends

Future trends (cont'd)

Future trends (cont'd)

Future trends (cont'd)

Future trends (cont'd)

Future trends (cont'd)

Future trends (cont'd)

Communication trends

The Grid

The Grid (cont'd)

The Grid (cont'd)

The Grid (cont'd)

Computers

In the beginning there were mainframes. And there still are. PDP-1

Transistors made it feasible to build ‘minicomputers’ for individual departments and labs, such as the PDP-1 in 1960: $120 000, 0.2 MHz clock, 4K 18-bit words of memory.

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