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> The IBM700 series was the most successful 1950s computer system. ... Able to handle 36 bit words using 18 bit instructions, it could be rented for $12,000 a m
by akdor1154 2y ago
> The IBM700 series was the most successful 1950s computer system. ... Able to handle 36 bit words using 18 bit instructions, it could be rented for $12,000 a month.
That's cheaper than an AWS p4d.24xlarge.
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- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoNot if you scale those dollars to 2024 Buck$. Back then, $12,000 was a lot of money. You could rent a whole office building, yearly, for that (actually, you could probably buy it, outright). These days, there are flats in NY and SF that go for more than that.
- Yawrehto 2y agoApparently 12,000 dollars in 1959 even is over $100,000 today: https://measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/?amount=12000&from=1959 https://measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/?amount=12000&fr...