linkedin post 2013-10-31 06:48:59

40 TONNE 1ST-GEN IBM 305 COMPUTER was the size of a room. “What’s amazing is that the IBM 305 did 50 operations per second. Today IBM makes a computer which does more than a 1,000 trillion operations per second. In comparison, the portable computer I carry on airplanes today is 150,000 times faster and has 20 times the disc capacity. Its purchase price is less than the monthly rental of the 305 RAMAC. It almost never fails, whereas the 305 conked out daily.” (James Martin 2010 interview).”
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