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Originally Posted by javadog
They had access to an IBM 700 series mainframe through their engine partner, Pratt & Whitney, but I don't know if they used it much. Back in Burbank, the slide rule was king.
JR
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_700/7000_series
Vacuum tube mainframes. In the pure sense of definition of the word computer, yep they were state of the art computers. With a speed so slow that they are off the scale so slow and predate any measurement or comparison to a computer of today.
I would love to figure out a valid comparison of the computing power of the 700 series room size computer to a iPhone 6s with 128 Gig of memory.