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).
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.