Current Events > Would you buy this computer?

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Daaaamn, 10 whole megabytes??

The future is truly here. Amazing.
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10mb is barely enough to cover a 6 minute song at 320.
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RAM used to be absurdly expensive.
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only $19,229.77
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This is what life was like before trade with China opened up.

This ad is from $1977. I wonder what 6k then is in today money.
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pres_madagascar posted...

This ad is from $1977. I wonder what 6k then is in today money.

$25,573.95

i did 1980 originally
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Hexenherz posted...

pres_madagascar posted...

This ad is from $1977. I wonder what 6k then is in today money.

$25,573.95

i did 1980 originally

Holy fuck
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A computer or a car lol
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So just skimming through a couple sites (one was British so I don't know if it translates well to the US economy of the time), and it looks like a car in 1977 was at least 1,000 dollars cheaper on average than this computer (1,000 in 1977 dollars).
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Hexenherz posted...

So just skimming through a couple sites (one was British so I don't know if it translates well to the US economy of the time), and it looks like a car in 1977 was at least 1,000 dollars cheaper on average than this computer (1,000 in 1977 dollars).

Damn
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Imagine like 50 years from now though when people are laughing at us spending $800 on a phone when they can get their's for 20 bucks
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Imagine like 50 years from now though when people are laughing at us spending $800 on a phone when they can get their's for 20 bucks

Imagine people in 100 years laughing at people in 50 years spending 20 bucks on a phone when they've all got Facebook subsidized communications implants.
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