Back when hard work literally meant hard work.
Actor Jimmy Stewart's air racing champ P-51C Mustang "Thunderbird".
1949 and 2023
ENIAC: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)[1][2] was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945.[3][4] There were other computers that had combinations of these features, but the ENIAC had all of them in one computer. It was Turing-complete and able to solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming
ENIAC could do 50 multiplications per second, and it had 18 ALUs. The FPGA chips now can do 500M multiplications per second on 3600 ALUs. That's two billion times the math in about .0001% of the space. Quite a bit of progress.
