I remember when a Gig took an entire computer room. I now have more computing power and storage in my PDA than on my 1st Mainframe — 1 MB of of virtual core memory and we were happy to have it!
And we had to push the bits uphill — to AND from the terminals! ASCII? I barely knew ye!! We had to use EBCDIC — and we liked it! COBOL that had to do their own memory segmentation? You betcha. Hot chick graphics? Character based — and we liked it!
*grumble* spoilt whippersnappers.
I remember when a 2314 was the best thing that had ever happened to me.