Cost of iPhone X in 1957
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Cost of iPhone X in 1957
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#2Why 1957?
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#3tl;dr USD $150 trillion.
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#4Why 1957?
It's where the historical data of memory prices start on his source:
http://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm
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#5Trying to answer the following might be fun as well: How much is a 1000 USD from today in that era in terms of purchasing power? What could you have bought with the equivalent amount of money, and how many people could have afforded the iPhone equivalent then?
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#6...and yet, even with all this computing power, simple tasks like loading a webpage full of text still take ridiculously long times.
Maybe not with a '57 vacuum tube (transistors actually existed at the time already) computer, but then there's this:
https://hubpages.com/technology/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualC...
The massive increase in computing power has been accompanied by a corresponding increase in complexity. For better or worse.
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#7Why 1957?
> Consider the 256 GB memory iPhone X: Implemented in vacuum tubes in 1957, the transistors in an iPhoneX alone would have [cost]...
Did a search for computer history and 1957 and came up with this: http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1957/
...the creation of FORTRAN? Looking at the entry for 1956, the site lists MIT creating the TX-0, the "first general-purpose programmable computer built with transistors", and IBM's shipment of "RAMAC", the first computer based on "The new technology of the hard disk drive".
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#8Why 1957?
So that Steve jobs was at least 2 years old before he came up with the idea
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#9...and yet, even with all this computing power, simple tasks like loading a webpage full of text still take ridiculously long times. Maybe not with a '57 vacuum tube (transistors actually existed at the time already) computer, but then there's this: https://hubpages.com/technology/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualC... The massive increase in computing power has been accompanied by a corresponding increase in complexity. Fo…
Fault of the the webpage or the phone?
multiple milliseconds or seconds? Ridiculous! Those of old enough to remember 9600 baud know the disappointment (in our lifetimes) waiting many minutes to download a jpg just to find it wasn't what we wanted. Or that mp3 track from some obscure FTP server....
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#10Why 1957?
In the mid 50s silicon transistors started to replace vacuum tubes. I assume tubes were at their cheapest in the late 50s. I'm not sure why the article uses '57 in particular though.