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Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's maybe what was on the LEM. The total computing power including the mainframes "back home" was a wee bit more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_91

(Also besides the fact that it was 200000+ gallons of kerosene that did the "going")

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That's still about 1000x less raw CPU performance than the cheapest smartphone on the market, though.

    (E.g. a Blu View 5 Pro, which is the cheapest Tracfone is listing as in stock, for $30. Its Helio G36 uses 4 Cortex A53 cores at 2200MHz and 4 at 1800 MHz, and between 1-2 instructions per clock, giving between 16000-32000 million instructions per second. The IBM ran at 16.6 million instructions per second, per that Wikipedia link.)

    (Looking at Walmart turned up a TCL K33 5G for only $20, but it uses a Dimensity 6300 cpu which is actually a little more powerful.)

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