15MB !!!

I love this kind of stuff.

It gets worse, imagine what those dollars could buy today.

:open_mouth:

Weren’t cd players like 1000 bucks back then too? The 80’s were crazy, I can’t believe things were that expensive.

I remember buying our first VCR, and we paid around $300 (maybe more…it was a lot) for a model that wasn’t even that great. Now, you can get one for $50…or better yet, a DVD player for that much. I think we paid $30 for ours. Crazy.

Sometime around '92 or '93, I bought a 500MB external HD for my Mac, and it was $500. At that rate, the drive in my iMac would be $320,000!

Reg

A friend of mine volunteers for a computer museum. At home, he runs a Mac classic (circa the 1984 commercial) and some other old machines. My friend thinks that using an old machine is cool, like driving a vintage car.

Me, I’m not so nostalgic, though I do tend to favor some old fashioned things like clothes.

I paid almost 2grand for a big ol grayscale Radius monitor. Unbelievable now to contemplate since color is so cheap.

I just looked on the old Christmas catalog site peeplj posted a few days ago-

from the 1983 Sears Wishbook-

Great stuff :thumbsup:
I love the VCR blurb; ‘Did that half back really step out of bounds?..freeze the action with stop motion and see for yourself’
And this beauty; ‘The remote control lets you do this up to 20 feet away’ this limit is in place as the cable on the remote is only 20 feet long. :smiley:
You also get, wait for it…a ‘convenient clock’, why, do other models have an inconvenient clock? :boggle:
Enter stage right; Al Gore spruiking his new project ‘An Inconvenient Clock’. :laughing:
As I recall, the first VCR’s made had to have a cloth/tea towel or something similar hung over the front of the timer/clock window panel on the front of the machine because the display was so bright in a darkened room! Ah…memories.

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

I wonder if convenient meant the same thing back then as it does now? Either way, these clocks have never been convenient, at least to set. :laughing:

With inflation, you can double all of those prices, double wow.

I will say one thing, I have never had a VCR quit working in under a year, maybe I was lucky, but the total cost of re-buying the same hardware adds up. I have tape players I purchased in the 80’s that still work, I don’t think I have had a CD player that has lasted over 2 years. Total cost of ownership may level things out.

That’s pretty cool. I figured the hard drives for my desktop, my wife’s laptop, all of our SD chips and our USB sticks come to roughly $310 million bucks.