Tuesday, October 7, 2008

A Mug Supreme, Reverse Nostalgia

Was just hearing more stuff about executive compensation at failing banks and such, and this popped into my head:
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Thought the textures in this pic would prove to be interesting
Hey, what's that lurking under the stairs?
Good gravy! It's a Commodore Business Machines PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) 2001 computer! It has an amazing 8k of RAM!
Every so often, one reads comments like "That was like what $$$$ is today", let's say if some one made $50 a week in 1948, someone would write "That's like $800 (or whatever) today!", basically pointing out how much less the dollar buys now, as opposed to then. Well, how about this -- back in 1989, I bought a 512KB RAM module for my Amiga 500 computer, and it cost something like $100; Just a couple of months ago, I bought 4GB of RAM for about $80, which would have cost $800,000 in 1989...

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