12 Dec
2022
12 Dec
'22
12:02 p.m.
On Mon, 12 Dec 2022, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
If you spent $1,000 on a Commodore 64 system in 1985,
that's about $2,800 in today's dollars, courtesy of inflation.
A working C-64 system might go for $700 on eBay today? But people
were giving them away not long ago. It's the bathtub curve.
40 years ago, a row of 16k ram chips (8 or 9 chips) sold for $100 to
$300 (Radio Shack and IBM)
40 years ago, a 5 megabyte hard drive sold for $1000 to $3000
Radio Shack charged $500 for an SA-400 floppy drive with case and power
supply.
you might pay similar prices, but capacity has double about every 18
months (one variation of Moore's Law)