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3DBenchy.stl, the little boat that everyone prints as a benchmark during 3d printer reviews, is 10MB. A 10MB hard drive cost $3,000-4,000 in 1980. That's $12k
by snakeyjake 2y ago
3DBenchy.stl, the little boat that everyone prints as a benchmark during 3d printer reviews, is 10MB.
A 10MB hard drive cost $3,000-4,000 in 1980.
That's $12k-15k today.
Just opening the .stl file and having it render (USABLY) on screen in high-resolution was probably not economical until the late 1990s-early 2000s.
I am used to computing tasks being human-perception instant. It takes tens of seconds to run repairs on 3d models, which means it would have taken tens of hours to do that same thing, if there was even enough RAM, in the 90s.