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The very first computer was humungus the size of a building

That is a misconception. ABC the first electronic digital computer was about the size of an office desk. ENIAC the first programmable electronic digital computer occupied 40 standard 19 inch relay racks filling three walls of a typical classroom. Neither was the size of a building.

Even the largest computer ever built, the AN/FSQ-7 built for the Air Force's SAGE air defense system near the end of the first generation, which occupied an entire floor of a large concrete building was not as large as a building.

Most early computers simply looked like several metal boxes a bit taller than a man and two feet on a side so the boxes could fit through doors.

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