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Computing Power

By the beginning of the 1990s, a Hallmark greeting card embedded with a microchip allowing it to play "Happy Birthday" contained more computing power than existed on the entire planet in the early 1950s.

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    A computer was heard to complain
    Any person possessed of a brain
    Knows the might of my chips
    The sheer power of my mips
    Watch me triumph, then let's have champagne
    - Alec Kitson (Costa Rica and Canada, ex-Brit)