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Alphane Moon @lemmy.world

8个月前

IBM 7090 Mainframe up for auction with a value up to $60,000 — over 23,000 pounds of transformative transistorized milestone in computing

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IBM 7090 Mainframe up for auction with a value up to $60,000 — over 23,000 pounds of transformative transistorized milestone in computing

Purchasing an IBM 7070 new, back in the 1950s, was a much bigger investment, at $813,000.

That's USD $8.79 M in today's dollars (i.e. inflation adjusted).

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The RTX 7090 will be roughly the same size

Just junk now. No practical value except as a museum piece.
- Or a very expensive hobby.
  I am assuming it's Paul Allen's grandchildren who are selling his "collectibles" as they don't share Allen's interests.
- Idk if it still works, but the computing power probably isn't enough to rub modern Programms(ignoring that architecture propably changed too).
  
  Probably? It ran software encoded on punch cards, only had ~98 KB of RAM (see note). It didn't even store numbers in binary!
  I'm sorry. I just found it really funny that you think there's even a tiny chance it could run anything you would call modern software.
  Note: It had at most 9,990 words of memory, and a decimal word was a 5 bit value plus a 5 bit header indicating whether it's positive or negative, or if it was alphanumeric instead.
- The power use alone must be expensive

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