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IBM 7090 Mainframe up for auction with a value up to $60,000 — over 23,000 pounds of transformative transistorized milestone in computing
Purchasing an IBM 7070 new, back in the 1950s, was a much bigger investment, at $813,000. Despite the move away from vacuum tube technology, the IBM 7070 was still a hulking beast. Capable of ...
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Retrotechtacular: The IBM 7070
If you think of IBM mainframe computers, you most likely are thinking of the iconic S/360 or the slightly newer S/370. But what about the 7070 from 1958? It had transistors! It didn’t ...
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Largest EDP System In Europe Installed In Frankfurt
So, 55 years ago, starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 25th 1961. The story continues: The centre consists of an IBM 7070 fully transistorised computing system. Neckermann’s, ...
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ibm 7070
If you think of IBM mainframe computers, you most likely are thinking of the iconic S/360 or the slightly newer S/370. But what about the 7070 from 1958? It had transistors! It didn’t ...