How fast were 1970 computers?

How fast were 1970 computers?

How fast were 1970 computers?

An IBM mainframe computer in 1970 (pictured above) cost $4.6 million and ran at a speed of 12.5 MHz (12.5 million instructions per second), which is a cost of $368,000 per MHz.

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Are mini computers fast?
They are very expensive and have a high memory size that is in gigabytes. The speed of minicomputers is in the range of 10-30MIPS. It has a high processing speed with a range from 100 to 900MIPS.
2024-02-20 05:30:41


How fast is real time?
The fastest rate at which humans appear to be able to process incoming visual stimuli is about 13 ms. Receiving a stream of data faster than this will only underscore the limits of our perception. 2. Increasing latency above 13 ms has an increasingly negative impact on human performance for a given task.
2024-01-17 13:49:40


How fast can a computer count to a billion?
But let's look at mine for a bit: one billion (9 zeros) is being reached fast – 15 seconds. but to get to one trillion (12 zeros) – the difference is amazing – 4 hours and 10 minutes. Basically 1000 times more.
2024-01-11 19:21:30


How fast can a computer process information?
The first computer processor had a processing speed of 740 kHz and was able to process 92,000 instructions per second. This may sound like many instructions per second, but today's processors are multi-core GHz processors and can process more than 100 billion instructions per second.
2023-10-25 04:03:35