To paraphrase Moore’s Law, the overall processing power of computers doubles approximately every two years – we’ve all experienced the thrill of coming across an old computer or laptop, and firing it up to marvel at the apparent lack of horsepower. Nowadays, computers routinely last less than a decade before they’re considered over the hill and replaced with newer, more capable models. In the early 90s, my parents purchased a gigantic, hulking, grey IBM computer that sat in t