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  • hans_glib1

    let's put things in perspective...
    this is a 1992 price list i've kept for posterity

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    • simpler times when a dvdram can get you laid lolhelloeatbreathedrive
    • Gee whizz. And those are £ rather than $, presumably? £8,590 for a specced-out Quadra and Monitor.Nairn
    • But the monitor stand was only 30 bucks! Let's riot on!!vvvv
    • Apparently that £8,590 cost is equivalent to £17,630 in 2019, when adjusted for inflation.Nairn
    • if only manufacturing speed, capability, and dependability had improved in that same period of time, oh wait...imbecile
    • I just looked up my first Mac from ‘96. A Power PC 6400. 2,400 USD (equivalent to $3,745 in 2017)fooler
    • https://512pixels.ne…
      Apparently the Lisa cost $25,000 in adjusted dollars at launch. !!!!      Nairn
    • yeah, but as long as you can get a cheaper pc, with good specs, made of plastic, with low quality connectors and internals, there will be bitches bitchingmonospaced
    • And 32" tv's used to be $700 10'ish years ago. Now, there $100. What's your point?section_014
    • cost adjusted to which rate? manufacturing? supply? wages? cost of living? it matters.imbecile
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