# Mad-Men: 7.06 "The Strategy" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 19, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-7-06-the-strategy-open-spoilers/688703 "2014-05-19T01:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-7-06-the-strategy-open-spoilers/688703/121 "2014-05-25T12:55:06Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > In fact, the slowest microchip I could find, the [ATiny4](http://www.atmel.com/images/atmel-8127-avr-8-bit-microcontroller-attiny4-attiny5-attiny9-attiny10_datasheet.pdf), used in remote controls and battery voltage regulators among other things, purchasable for 40 cents each wholesale, is still 8 times faster than the IBM 360/50. Not to mention memory, what with 32G flash drives and all, for Pete’s sake. Not _that_ Pete. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-7-06-the-strategy-open-spoilers/688703/122 "2014-05-25T13:21:07Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Maybe they should have added a scene in this episode showing Peggy and a flunky doing marketing research in a parking lot of a _Burger Chef_. You know, for realism. Way to miss the point. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-7-06-the-strategy-open-spoilers/688703/123 "2014-05-25T13:51:28Z")
Just using this thread to remind people that unlike most shows, Mad Men didn’t take the holiday weekend off. The finale for this half of the season is tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-7-06-the-strategy-open-spoilers/688703/124 "2014-05-25T14:02:30Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > There’s no probably about it. The IBM 360/50 operated at roughly [150K operations/second](http://iae-pedia.org/Speed_of_Computers#My_Early_University_of_Oregon_Computer_Experiences). The latest Apple A7 system on a chip is capable of [about 150 billion operations/second](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_system_on_a_chip#List_of_Apple_SoCs), between the CPU and GPU. Meaning the $800 iPhone 5s in your pocket is about a million times faster than the $15M machine you see in Mad Men. I knew I was being over-cautious with that “probably”. So I guess that means that even cellphones from say 15 years back would have been more powerful than the 360 ? ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-7-06-the-strategy-open-spoilers/688703/125 "2014-05-25T14:51:56Z")
> [@Lantern](#): > > I knew I was being over-cautious with that “probably”. So I guess that means that even cellphones from say 15 years back would have been more powerful than the 360 ? The ubiquitous [Nokia 3210](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3210) phone, released in 1999 had a 13 Mhz processor in it, making it roughly 8x as fast as the IBM 360/50. Meaning, if you had $100M in the 1960s, you could lash together a cluster of IBM 360’s… and play a game of snake. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-men-7-06-the-strategy-open-spoilers/688703.md?page=6)