[Milsurplus] Maybe the Good Old Days Weren't

[Peter Gottlieb]

Too bad all the surplus equipment part of MARS is long gone.  They could get a 
lot of capability on the air from what nowadays gets ground up into scrap metal.

Peter


On 1/18/2016 9:03 PM, George Babits wrote:
> Well, that's all fine and dandy.  The "inflation calculators" really don't 
> mean anything.  Those prices represented a lot of money back then, just as the 
> "inflation calculated" prices look like a lot now.  Even in the 1970's Fair 
> Radio had brand new BC-223 with the TUs and all for less than $50. Now,  a 
> brand new 801 is $145 and there were 4 of them in th BC-223.  I couldn't 
> afford a BC-779 back then; but a few years later I got one for nothing through 
> AF MARS.
>
> George
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> Those of us of a certain age pine for the good ol' days when WWII surplus 
> equipment was plentiful and cheap. I was looking through some old issues of 
> Radio-TV News and found something that surprised me.
> In 1959, Fair Radio was advertising a BC-779 receiver for $69.95 and the 
> associated power supply for $14.95. Who among us wouldn't jump at a BC-779 and 
> power supply for those prices? Yep, those were the good ol' days.
> Then I used an inflation calculator: $69.95 in 1959 dollars equals $570.50 and 
> $14.95 equals $121.93 in today's dollars. In other words, that rig cost 
> $692.43 in current dollars. If I saw one at a hamfest next summer for nearly 
> $700, I'd walk on by.
> See what I mean? Maybe the good ol' days weren't as good as we remember them.
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> Joe Connor
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