Down memory lane...

[krissel]

Hard to believe things have changed this much.  



http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/370

[chriskleeman]

CK

[gunug]

In 8 inch floppy days I'd have been in heaven with that much hard drive!  I think we had some of those drives hooked up in mini-comps in a research lab at KU.  I don't know if they spent that much on them!

[Gregg]

Now, how to get housing costs and medical bills to fall by the same percentage....

Figure that out, and you could be President. (...or homeless and chronically ill)

[jepinto]

My first Apple-Mac Classic, 8 MHz, 4 M ram, 40 M hard drive, refurbished, $995.  My most recent Apple, MacBook Pro 2.16 GHZ, 3Ghz ram, 120G hard drive, new, $2350.

From Measuringworth.com

QUOTE

In 2006,  $995.00  from 1991 is worth:
   $1,472.78    using the Consumer Price Index
   $1,373.60    using the GDP deflator
   $0.00    using the value of consumer bundle
   $1,550.21    using the unskilled wage
   $1,850.15    using the nominal GDP per capita
   $2,189.62    using the relative share of GDP

Thank you for the stroll.

[Paddy]

Our first Mac, a IIsi, had 3MB of RAM, a 40GB HD and cost $3,420 WITH an education discount. Add on the Extended Keyboard II for $160, and the Apple Hi-res color monitor for $660 and the "free" Personal Laserwriter NT, and the grand total was $4240.00 US. (approximately $6472 in 2007 dollars according to the government's CPI inflation calculator)

I keep the bill because it gets progressively more amusing...

After couple of years, we bought an external HD for it - 750MB for $379. Prices in 1993 had really come down since 1981!!

My most recent Mac, a 2.33 GHz MacBook Pro with 15" screen, 120GB HD, 1GB of RAM etc. was $2498 with the educator discount.