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- From: smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith)
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- Subject: dinosaur horsepower - Numbers
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.193420.22129@sctc.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 19:34:20 GMT
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- These are excerpted from tables originally published in Vol. 10, #4 of
- the Annals of the History of Computing (1989). Both tables are sorted
- by add speed. In all cases, machines with "average" add speeds are the
- ones that use some form of rotating memory.
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- Some Early Prototype-like Dinos:
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- Name Add Speed (microsecs) Storage (total bits)
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- Whirlwind 40 32,768
- Binac 800 15,872
- Seac 850 (average) 23,040
- Manchester #1 1200 10,240
- Edsac 1500 18,432
- ERA 1101 8500 (average) 393,216
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- Some Commercial Dinos, big and small:
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- Name Add Speed (microsecs) Cost
- IBM 7090 4 $3,630,000
- PDP 1 5 $ 110,000
- IBM 704 24 $1,994,000
- IBM 709 24 $2,630,000
- IBM 650 2736 (average) $ 250,000
- Librascp LGP 30 5500 (average) $ 55,860
- Bendix G-15 7520 (average) $ 77,300
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- Most of these were introduced in the mid to late '50s, except the
- first two which appeared in the early '60s.
-
- Rick.
- smith@sctc.com arden hills, minnesota
-