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Mainframe or Toaster?

A spec sheet appears. You decide: room-filling vintage computer, or the gadget on your kitchen counter. The gap is smaller than you think.

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Spec sheet

Eighteen thousand vacuum tubes, thirty tons, 150 kilowatts — and it managed about 5,000 additions per second.

Serious vintage computer, or a mundane modern gadget?