We bought the beast called PAX at IKEA and were so foolish to believe we could assemble it by ourselves. It was a tough piece of work but in the end we succeeded without too much damage. I'm not sure if the thing will ever leave this bedroom again.
Ideally one would desire an indefinitely large memory capacity such that any particular... word would be immediately available... We are... forced to recognize the possibility of constructing a hierarchy of memories, each of which has greater capacity than the preceding but which is less quickly accessible. A. W. Burks, H. H. Goldstine, and J. von Neumann, Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument, 1946