16 Jun
2018
16 Jun
'18
8:34 p.m.
5-10K for a grad student seems low for the late ‘70s. I was an RA at Stanford then and
they paid about $950/month. The loaded cost would have been about twice that.
My lab had an 11/34 with V7 and we considered ourselves quite well off.
-L
On 2018, Jun 16, at 10:10 AM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Thanks, I thought it was about 10 years earlier. It means that the 16 bit systems were
definitely the norm and the 32 bit system were well under design and the micros already
birthed. That said, as I pointed out in my paper last summer, in 1977, a PDP-11 that was
able to run UNIX (11/34 with max memory) ran between $50-150K depending how it was
configured and an 11/70 was closer to $250K. To scale, In 2017 dollars, we calculated
that comes to $208K/$622K/$1M and as I also pointed out, a graduate researcher in those
days cost about $5-$10K per year.
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