Inflation
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There's ice cream? Is it mint-choc-chip?
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Replaced 4 tires on my wife's minivan yesterday, $800+. Back in graduate school days you could buy a car (that would last more than 2 years) with that kind of money.
For $800 you can buy a computer that is more then 10 times powerful as a $8000 computer back then, with 100 more times storage.
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Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
$800+. Back in graduate school days you could buy a car (that would last more than 2 years) with that kind of money.
Yes and an icecream cost 50c. Your point is?
Peter Wasser Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa
pwasser wrote:
Your point is?
Inflation, I guess.
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For $800 you can buy a computer that is more then 10 times powerful as a $8000 computer back then, with 100 more times storage.
unless the name starts with an "i". But then it's again more the inflated thingy.
regards Torsten When I'm not working
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Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
Back in graduate school days you could buy a car
Back in the old days cars were just cars not minivans, SUVs, etc... :-D
Veni, vidi, vici.
CPallini wrote:
Back in the old days cars were just cars not minivans, SUVs, etc...
Right, but tires have stayed the same. If the new tires today can fry bacon on my way to office I will not complain.
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For $800 you can buy a computer that is more then 10 times powerful as a $8000 computer back then, with 100 more times storage.
loyal ginger wrote:
For $800 you can buy a computer that is more then 10 times powerful as a $8000 computer back then, with 100 more times storage.
But a $8000 computer back then comes with an air-conditioned room and uniformed technicians. :-D
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pwasser wrote:
Your point is?
Inflation, I guess.
Exactacally.
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loyal ginger wrote:
For $800 you can buy a computer that is more then 10 times powerful as a $8000 computer back then, with 100 more times storage.
But a $8000 computer back then comes with an air-conditioned room and uniformed technicians. :-D
Right. Our VAX 11/750 cost a lot more and occupied the only air-conditioned room in our place. It had only 8MB of memory. However, it drove 40 terminals. When the load was high, our users often had to wait for 10 minutes to even open a source code to edit.
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CPallini wrote:
Back in the old days cars were just cars not minivans, SUVs, etc...
Right, but tires have stayed the same. If the new tires today can fry bacon on my way to office I will not complain.
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Replaced 4 tires on my wife's minivan yesterday, $800+. Back in graduate school days you could buy a car (that would last more than 2 years) with that kind of money.
