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).
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).
Just junk now. No practical value except as a museum piece.
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.
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.
The power use alone must be expensive