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Re: Rather a Lot Of Computers Being Bought!

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I was amused by a comment made many years ago by a computer `geek` when computers were first being developed for the mass market. He said that in years to come, there would be at least one computer in every street.
How many years ago was that?
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Re: Rather a Lot Of Computers Being Bought!

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How many years ago was that?
Early to mid-sixties?
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Re: Rather a Lot Of Computers Being Bought!

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Early to mid-sixties?
Blimey, before my time then. Did he mean on every street corner? Like a telephone box?
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Re: Rather a Lot Of Computers Being Bought!

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Blimey, before my time then. Did he mean on every street corner? Like a telephone box?
I'm assuming that he meant in well-off households. Until the mass manufacturing of transistors and later, microchips, computers were well out of the reach of most wallets.
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Re: Rather a Lot Of Computers Being Bought!

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I'm assuming that he meant in well-off households. Until the mass manufacturing of transistors and later, microchips, computers were well out of the reach of most wallets.
Must have been VERY well off...when cars and TV's were considered luxury items then, I think.
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Re: Rather a Lot Of Computers Being Bought!

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I'm assuming that he meant in well-off households. Until the mass manufacturing of transistors and later, microchips, computers were well out of the reach of most wallets.
Originally Posted by Pixie Knuckles ->
Must have been VERY well off...when cars and TV's were considered luxury items then, I think.
IBM System/360 Model 75



Announced April 22, 1965 and
withdrawn March 15, 1977.

The Model 75 was an outgrowth of IBM's continuing engineering development effort to enhance the capabilities of the original System/360 offerings. Its main memory operated at 750 nanoseconds and was available in three sizes up to 1,048,576 characters of information. The memory was interleaved up to four ways to obtain increased performance.

The Model 75 superseded the original Model 70 of the System/360 family, which had been announced a year earlier. Manufactured at IBM's plant in Kingston, N.Y., the Model 75 had a monthly rental range of $50,000 ($400k today) to $80,000 ($600k today), and a purchase price range of $2.2 million ($18m today) to $3.5 million ($29m today). Deliveries began during the fourth quarter of 1965.
I started work on IBM360's in 1968 and, in the UK, only companies the size of GEC (who I worked for) could afford such colossal machines .....

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Re: Rather a Lot Of Computers Being Bought!

Oh my word!!!
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Re: Rather a Lot Of Computers Being Bought!

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IBM System/360 Model 75



Announced April 22, 1965 and
withdrawn March 15, 1977.



I started work on IBM360's in 1968 and, in the UK, only companies the size of GEC (who I worked for) could afford such colossal machines .....

Strange to think that there's more computing power in a modern smart-phone than that one.
 
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