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Apparently cell phone prices have been fairly consistent over the decades:
We bought our first home PC in 1996, made by IBM, cost us $4700
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We bought our first home PC in 1996, made by IBM, cost us $4700
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That would be US$7330 now.
Our first home PC was a Heathkit H8-H14-H19 system in 1980 that cost US$3500 with a 2Mhz 8080a CPU and 16k RAM. The add-on 64K card was another $800 but we needed it for CP/M. And we had to build the system ourselves -- mainframe, floppy drives (*), terminal, printer. Try building a dot-matrix printer sometime, from bags of raw parts.
(*) The H17-3 package was a mainframe-size enclosure and three double-height drives for hard-sector single-sided single-density 5.25-inch floppies storing 91k each. We needed that much storage to run the COBOL-80 compiler and still had to switch discs.
The total US$4300 then is equivalent to around $12,800 now. (1980-2017 inflation is just under 300%.) My $150 Android phone is more powerful.
In retrospect, we should have gone with the H11 system with an LSI-11 CPU running Unix and other DEC PDP-11 warez. But that, and the required 8-inch floppy drives, would have cost another $1600 or so ($4750 now). Even for we well-paid software engineers, that was out of budget.
Meanwhile, alas. The handball keyboard never caught on.
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Guy deserves it if for no other reason than wearing those damnable short black socks.
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When you do the exact same job day in and day out and have to find a way to enjoy it
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The issue is settled.
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The patent holder apparently never had any cats or small children.The issue is settled.
