Question by flyuphigh2006: What was the maximum computer/internet speed in the 1960s?
What is the maximum computer/internet speed now in 2006? I’m open to details as well, so if you want to explain the history of the internet and its speed, just spill it out. ^^ lol~
Thanks to all who answer.
Also, if poss., please list your sources. =) Thank you~
Oh… really, Alex? Thx for that info. I forgot that there may not have been computers all the way back then. Well, then let’s change the question to:
What was the maximum computer/internet speed in the 1980s?
How’s that?
P.S. Sorry for not being clear, but this isn’t DOING my homework. What I’m looking for is information to help write a paper and your resources. I have searched online and perhaps I didn’t put in the right wording because I couldn’t find what I was looking for, which is why I came here to ask if anybody else knew any info. and if they did, where’d they get it from, so I can use it as a reference to write my paper.
Best answer:
Answer by alexisms5694
What computers? THere weren’t any till the early 80s and possibly the late 70s. Well, for PCs anyway. I’m not sure about the giant computers.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
Well with out over clocking and stuff of that nature i think we’re somewhere around 4 ghz now.
check out pcworld.com they’re really informative on that site
I will not do your homework for you. At least have the motivation to try google before just asking people for the answer.
the internet did not exist until 1986
Well some of the original networks date back to the 40′s and 50′s with the use of teletype terminals. A very good speed for these circuits was considered to be 75bps although 50bps or slower was used on poor lines. Due to the slow speeds a 5 bit code called baudot was used. The early network centers were called torn tape centers, as the operators would pull a punched paper tape from one tty machine, read the address, and feed the tape in the machine connected to the next hop on the way to the destination.
i dont think there have any computer that time
oh yeah , i was born in 1980 so i dont really know the past thanks
wait i will go back to the future, wait for me ok
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In 1965 I went with my father to his workplace (Whirlpool) and watched a computer punch tape fed to the computer (in
Chicago) to run a program from the punch tape. I remember the hookup speed at 300 baud. There were computers in the 60′s. I helped to push a IBM 1130 into the campus of Rose Polytechnic Institute in 1965. This one read punch cards and replaced the Bendix model that was magnetic wire programmed.
300 baud.. look at the link below. I didn’t even know it was a slow as it was…
In 1969, when the “father of the internet” Al Gore was still in the Army, it was 50kbps according to a wikipedia article on ARPANET. Don’t know about max speeds of computers now.
First we define computer- do you mean PC or server? In 1960 there were no pc’s only terminals which accessed a mainframe super computer.
They typically took up entire rooms with thier size and equipment. (vacum tubes were all the rage)
1960
The precursor to the minicomputer, DEC´s PDP-1 sold for $ 120,000. One of 50 built, the average PDP-1 included with a cathode ray tube graphic display, needed no air conditioning and required only one operator. It´s large scope intrigued early hackers at MIT, who wrote the first computerized video game, SpaceWar!, for it. The SpaceWar! creators then used the game as a standard demonstration on all 50 computers.
1964
CDC´s 6600 supercomputer, designed by Seymour Cray, performed up to 3 million instructions per second — a processing speed three times faster than that of its closest competitor, the IBM Stretch. The 6600 retained the distinction of being the fastest computer in the world until surpassed by its successor, the CDC 7600, in 1968. Part of the speed came from the computer´s design, which had 10 small computers, known as peripheral processors, funneling data to a large central processing unit.
1966
Hewlett-Packard entered the general purpose computer business with its HP-2115 for computation, offering a computational power formerly found only in much larger computers. It supported a wide variety of languages, among them BASIC, ALGOL, and FORTRAN
1968
Data General Corp., started by a group of engineers that had left Digital Equipment Corp., introduced the Nova, with 32 kilobytes of memory, for $ 8,000.
The Nova minicomputer. The simple architecture of the Nova instruction set inspired Steve Wozniak´s Apple I board eight years later
Internet speed- whoa nelly here we go!
1960
AT&T designed its Dataphone, the first commercial modem, specifically for converting digital computer data to analog signals for transmission across its long distance network. Outside manufacturers incorporated Bell Laboratories´ digital data sets into commercial products. The development of equalization techniques and bandwidth-conserving modulation systems improved transmission efficiency in national and global systems.
1964
Online transaction processing made its debut in IBM´s SABRE reservation system, set up for American Airlines. Using telephone lines, SABRE linked 2,000 terminals in 65 cities to a pair of IBM 7090 computers, delivering data on any flight in less than three seconds
hmmm I think I’ve reminesced long enough to those long gone days- modern speeds and easy to find- Good luck and enjoy the little peek at history.