[Boatanchors] B&W6100

[Michael Clarson]

Brian: I know the CPI is frequently used to compare yesterday's prices to
today, but that is an overall index and does not really apply to specific
markets. Electronics is a real exception to the CPI. For example, a 1957
color TV, 19" would sell for $500, and, at the end of the CRT TV era, a 19"
unit could be had for $49. Using the typical CPI calculator, comparing 1957
to 2009, CPI says a 19" TV should cost almost $4000, but working back, the
$49 TV would have cost only $7 in 1957. Could one build the B&W transmitter
today? It might cost $6000, but it wouldn't be built the same way, and it
would probably still cost around $800. Gasoline, however, which cost about
$0.20 per gallon in 1957, using the CPI, should only cost $1.69 today, but
that didn't happen either! --73, Mike, WV2ZOW

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Brian KA9EGW <ka9egw at ka9egw.com> wrote:

> Pete's right.  The underneath view has a high-school-shop-class look to it.
> $875 [price in B&W's advert in 11/63 issue of 73] works out to $6786 in
> last
> year's dollars.  *I* wouldn't pay ~$7K for a rig that looked that junky
> underneath...I wonder if they were all that sloppy looking?  Now I'm afraid
> to look under my recently-acquired one...but now I gotta HI HI  73, Brian
> KA9EGW
> >SNIP<
> Looking at the bottom chassis view of S/N 227 (there isn't one for S/N 283)
> I'm not very impressed, it almost looks like someone found a bunch of stuff
> in their basement and sloppily wired it all up.
> Was B&W highly considered when it came out ? -pete
> >SNIP<
>
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