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Just because people spent more money does not mean that people got more or better stuff. Economists are techno-illiterates.

How can tech maintenance people not know about planned obsolescence? And not notice that Economists are technological illiterates? I was working for IBM around 1980 in the General Systems Division. The System/23 Datamaster in the upper right was to replace the older 5110 in the upper left. I was working the night shift when someone on the day shift set up both machines on a table. For customer demonstrations and sales I presume. I NeVeR saw the word 'benchmark' in IBM documentation so I decided to write my own and do some tests. I created a Bubble Sort program and Prime Numbers by Division program in BASIC. The old machine was almost twice as fast as the DM23. The DM23 used an 8-bit 8085 processor having 6000 transistors while the DisplayWriter, priced $1100 less than the DM23, in the lower left which used a 16-bit 8086 processor with 29,000. It was from the Office Products Division and was supposedly
aug 29, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0

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