Dani
Odd example to use to promote the 380. The first computers used vacuum tubes ("valves" in Britain). They consumed power at prodigious levels, required massive cooling systems and computed roughly at the level of a medium priced cell phone (to be generous). They also occupied a volume equivalent to a large Home. Are you suggesting that the 380 is a "pioneering" A/C? Developed as a "proof" of cutting edge technology? At best it is the result instead of "bigger is better". There are no breathtaking advantages to the 380 over other (arguably more flexible) A/C. It is a wonderful achievement; the end result, though, of an idea that was "cutting edge" in 1963, with the first blue lines of the 747.