[ARC5] Can yoiu say...
Kenneth G. Gordon
kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Tue Jun 13 17:27:36 EDT 2017
On 13 Jun 2017 at 16:58, Michael Clarson wrote:
> Phillip: CPI and other price indicators are used to indicate what things would cost today, but we
> are speaking of electronics which does not track with these indicators. For example, a 21" table
> top color TV in 1959 was about $500, and, when the last of the CRT sets were being sold, a 19"
> Table Top (WITH UHF) typically sold for $49.
> The $500 TV would cost almost $3000 in year 2000 dollars, but, working backwards, the $49 TV
> from year 2000 would cost $8.42 in 1959 dollars. Electronics is an exception. The calculator I
> used is at https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl . ---Mike, WV2ZOW
Yes. I can easily attest to that.
In about 1970, when I first began to work with computers, the very first "micro-computer" I
worked with was a Southwest Technical Products kit. For that rig, 1K (1024 bytes) of RAM
cost $1500.00 (!) which is a little over $9400 in today's worthless money, and a bit later, a 5
MB hard drive (Radio Shack) cost $4995.95, which is a little over $29,000.00 in today's
dollars.
If all that had kept up with inflation, that $1500.00 1K of RAM would cost $9400.00 today, but
instead, not only can you no longer even find a 1K RAM, an 8GB RAM stick costs about
$75.00, or $ 0.000009375 per 1K.
You can't even install an operating system on any computer today on a 5 MB HD.
Gee....
Ken W7EKB
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