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Even 10-15 years later, multiple CPUs and 128Mb RAM was quite uncommon. How much did this beast cost back in the 80s? Edit: Max configs were up to $250,000 ($663,937.02 today) back then according to this price list: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/Apollo_Price_List_Jul88....
Even 10-15 years later, multiple CPUs and 128Mb RAM was quite uncommon. How much did this beast cost back in the 80s? Edit: Max configs were up to $250,000 ($663,937.02 today) back then according to this price list: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/Apollo_Price_List_Jul88....
Yeah, to put it in perspective, in 1988 I was still dreaming about an Amiga 500 or 2000 with less than 1% of that RAM.
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And those 10 years were the 90’s, advancement was crazy back then.
So true. A year or two after this machine, you could have bought an AT&T StarServer "E" with 4x i486 CPUs and 2GiB total memory, for dramatically less money.
I love the watercolor and hand-drawn diagrams. Makes this look like a truly artisan crafted machine -- lovingly crafted, all the way down to the documentation.
A big part of it is merely nostalgia, but another part is that they put a sizable effort behind these things. They were more than happy to highlight the unique qualities and capabilities of the computer and put more than a few days effort into the promotional material.
We still have that a little nowadays but it is usually on a website that has 'that' layout we have seen a thousand times trying to copy the Apple website design language.
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Dual (50% overclocked) Celerons on a BP6 was a relatively common enthusiast setup in the early 2000s. 128M of RAM was also not a huge amount then.
Pentium 2 was released in 1997 and was released with maximum speed of 450 MHZ which could be overclocked much higher.
Things moved rapidly back then.
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So true. A year or two after this machine, you could have bought an AT&T StarServer "E" with 4x i486 CPUs and 2GiB total memory, for dramatically less money.
I assume a 486 was dramatically slower than the Apollo PRISM (which looks reasonably well-designed by today's standards).
Even 10-15 years later, multiple CPUs and 128Mb RAM was quite uncommon. How much did this beast cost back in the 80s? Edit: Max configs were up to $250,000 ($663,937.02 today) back then according to this price list: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/Apollo_Price_List_Jul88....
Same Apollo company where original version of uuid came from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifie...