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What piece of technology did you pay a bunch of money for back in the day that now costs practically nothing or at the very least costs much less.
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28 comments:
It's not the same one now but a DVD player (I think it was $199 then, now I can buy one for $49)which according to reports now saying DVDs are about to be obsolete.
Microwave 1st one was 350;last one 40.
$2000 for my first computer, which was the cheapest desktop you could buy at Best Buy.
Memory. First memory card i bought for a digital camera was $60 for 1/2 gig. Last memory i bought was a 128gb thumb drive for $22.
My very first desktop computer in 1985/86?
($3,100 for a 512 8 Mg-hertz computer.)
I was on my way to becoming a big time writer/producer!
$400 for a VCR mid 80's.
Years ago I had a friend who was fairly well off and traveled frequently in Europe. Sometime in the late seventies or very early eighties we were out walking one day shortly after she'd come back from a trip. She pulled this tiny little tape deck out called a "Walkman" of her purse. I'd never seen anything so small and I laughed and said what kind of sound can a little thing like that produce. She handed it to me to try. I plugged the earphones into my ears and she turned on the Rolling Stones -- pretty near full blast -- and nearly deafened me for life. Shortly after that I saw them on sale in the US for the first time -- amazingly enough at a price I could afford, though I don't remember what it was -- and instantly went out and bought one.
Anything more than 4 years old.
The portable phone in the car. Cost was 2500.00. Just made calls, but man was it handy. That was 1980 dollars.
My dad bought a vcr for over $1000 when the technology was new. Top loading.
I paid a lot of money for a Canon digital camera about 15 years ago. It still works really well to this day.
mac classic II in 1987 for $1100.. wait..!
4mb ram btw and a decade later i could actually get it online but it couldn't handle fields/forms
Lasik technology. I got both eyes done when it first came out, paid upwards of five grand. It's less than one thousand an eye now. I don't care it was well worth it
My first 50 inch flatscreen tv.
We got a VCR back in 1980 and it was about 700.00. It was huge and clunky and the remote was attached with a wire. I had one VCR tape. I think the blank tapes were about $15.00 each.
im very bad for numbers, but it's computer & air conditioner....
My first desktop computer that I too purchased at Best Buy.
I paid over $500 for a palm pilot for my husband 17 years ago. What a waste.
Okay, so let's assume this happened in the mid- to late '70s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocassette_recorder#Early_machines_and_formats). Good Lord: http://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1000&year=1975
Lord. My current laptop is cheaper than that. And it's super-thin, with fingerprint recognition, and has B&O speakers. FFS.
I paid 399 for an iPod when they first came out. It went through the wash a few weeks later.
A walkman cd (portable cd carrier), I cant remember how much it cost but they went the way of the DoDo now ;)
And you STILL haven't gotten a life since then...
In 1983 my then husband and I bought a microwave for 350.00. When we divorced I got it and still use it. It is a Samsung carousel. These days appliances are made so cheap. I think it is better to buy used, well maintained appliances unless you are the "first person on the block to have one" type.
Most. Oddly, my Creative Zen still keeps it's purchase price.
Whassup, Pot? -Kettle
In the 90's when the internet first started, they paid $900 for a 2400 baud modem for me. It only took 20 minutes to download one text file! We were so impressed.
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