Fosfor gadgets has a short but interesting article that compares gadgets from the ’70s & ’80s to today’s versions.
While they talk about mobile phones, stereos and storage devices, they’ve missed out on comparing yesterday’s computers to today’s.
So, here’s a 2006 Macbook Pro:
Compare that to the NACA human computers at work from 1949!
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/People/Small/E49-0053.jpg