Computer Nostalgia

I was just thinking about computers. We're having a few problems with our desktop, and have ordered another, which will arrive soon. It's been pretty frustrating, "blue screens" all the time, and we've taken off as much of our personal stuff as would fit on 12 GB flash drives, but it's made me think of how far computers have come in my lifetime.
Thirty years ago, I was working at one of the largest computer facilities owned by the Navy. We had an IBM Systems 360, and it filled a large room, and took five people to operate. We were tied, by dedicated land-line, to the IBM 370 at NAVPERS. I was about to transfer to a submarine tender, and work with a system designated as the AN/UYK-5, and the actual computer was a water-cooled, 3 x 3 x 6 foot box that had a memory capacity of 16,000 bits (not bytes). Three years later, I was transfered to Monterey, CA, and worked on a computer system that filled a building. It was actually about six different systems, each feeding a "super" computer, which could handle the massive amounts of data, and process 700,000 instructions per second.
We used to store data on "punch cards," and magnetic tape. Then came the invention of a disk. The first I saw was eight "platters" (disks in a stack), that measured about 24" across, and about a foot high. Disks could be removed using a cover, which aided in unscrewing the platters, which could then be lifted out of the drive (a "drawer," actually, one of four in a 6 x 6 x 3 foot cabinet), and placed on a plastic bottom. Each disk-pack weighed about eight pounds, and could store over 300,000 bits (again, not bytes) of information.
Updating information was a tedious process, that took hours to accomplish, and the only output, other than tapes, cards, or disk files, were listings, usually multi-part, that took a full box of 8.5 x 14 inch paper to make.
I remember when the first "home" computers hit the scene. The first I ever saw was a Radio Shack TRS-80 ("Trash" 80). The guy who owned it, was the first "computer geek" I ever met, Joe Wolf. He wanted to get a look at the source code for the Supply System, because he could do it better and faster on his "micro" computer. I laughed, then, but he probably owns part of Microsoft, or something, now, so who was naieve?
I write this bit of nostalgia, because I have just ordered a home computer that has 4 gigabytes of memory, and 1 terabyte of storage. Back then, we got the information we needed, but it was a series of processes, consuming great quantities of time. Now, as fast as you can push a button, you get whatever you want. Unless your computer screws up. Then, you can simply buy another. Who'd of thunk that?