Although today, a iPhone It is a very light device, the current technology is the one that has achieved it, because if we go back 50 years ago, the thing changes, and all the components of a current telephone would need a huge space for it.
Today, we are going to see this curiosity, which although it is already passed, makes us see, more realistically, the change that has meant all the Technological evolution In such a short time, because many older people who have an iPhone now, saw the birth of television in Spain, for example.
What would an iPhone be 50 years ago
When talking about its components, there is much that they did not even exist, so it would be difficult to analyze, and, therefore, even bigger than we are going to talk about today. However, we can know more or less the size of its transistors, as well as the space we would need to store 1 TB of data, something that an iPhone manages to reduce to millimeters today, but that formerly it was not so easy.
The A17 pro chip of the iPhone 15 pro has around 19,000 million transistors in a space less than 100 mm². In comparison, in the 60s or 70s (for not going further), the transistors of the computers occupied several centimeters each, so you can calculate the size.
On the other hand, 1 TB of storage We can find it, currently, in a chip the size of a nail, however, in the 60-70 years, storage was made with magnetic discs or perforated tapes. An IBM 305 Ramac (1956) had 5 MB capacity and weighed more than 1 ton, so you can also calculate its weight.
Without counting screens and connectivities, at this time we have madness of dimensions, since if we make a real calculation, 1 GB of space would occupy about 200 tons Weight, while At the transistor level, they would not enter a citysince we would have billions of centimeters, something unimaginable
Can you imagine loading with an iPhone like this? The truth is that it is absurd as formerly an album of only 5 MB could weigh 1,000 kg, which could not raise or among several people, and now 1 TB can occupy the same as a nail.
This leads us to think what will happen in another 50 years, since current technology and tools could help us advance even faster, although, where? Does anything need to invent as impressive as what we have seen so far?
And you, did you think an iPhone with the technology of decades ago would occupy so much? It is true that we all know the evolution of the components, however, it is even exaggerated for what we can think, so, although it does not help much, we have this curious fact. Leave us a comment with your impressions about it.
