Okay,

Week 2's assigned readings:
Computer Hardware:
There were several terms in that article that I didn't know, so it was good to learn some new terminology. RAM, ROM, BIOS and I even learned what DVD stands for: Digital Versatile Disc.
There was still some terminology that wasn't explained: LAN, and WLAN.
Hopefully I will learn what they stand for during the course of this class.

Moore's Law:
This article was slightly confusing with all the specifics of the computer and much talk about transistors and costs and nanocomputers. But there was something in there about IBM researchers developing new methods to achieve even smaller circuits which are expected to be substantially more expensive.
I can remember being in computer rooms where the computer took up the whole room, and they cost thousands of dollars. The current size of the computers we us at work and at home seem just the right size to me and thankfully they don't cost so much that they are unaffordable to the middle class.
It would be unfortunate if research develops in such a way to have very small, but more expensive computers.


^{Computer History Museum:
The next time I am in Mountain View, CA, I would like to visit this museum.
It was interesting to note the Old Internet Maps they were showing from the 70's and 80's, especially after seeing your lecture and the very first picture was a map of the internet. It is now so large that you can no longer see any individual connection points, like on the first ARPANET maps.}