BAD HARDWARE WEEK

• "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1952.
• "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, 1949

Russian Strelas were manufactured by the Moscow Plant of Computing-Analytical Machines during 1953–1957; 7 copies were manufactured.
15 February 1946 ENIAC 300 Flops
2016   supercomputer Cori 30 PFlops
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK:  That is 10exp14 times more processing power.  In year 2019 10exp15 times ! ENIAC have had equivalent of 175 000 switches, based on digital switching formalism Shannon introduced in 1938.