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Ask HN: How much would the Raspberry Pi Zero cost in the 1980's?
Interested... for the spec the Raspberry Pi has, how much would it have cost historically to purchase?
- A Broadcom BCM2835 application processor
- 1GHz ARM11 core (40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1)
- 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM
- A micro-SD card slot
- A mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output
- Micro-USB sockets for data and power
- An unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header
- Identical pinout to Model A+/B+/2B
- An unpopulated composite video header
- Our smallest ever form factor, at 65mm x 30mm x 5mm
http://raspberry.piaustralia.com.au/products/raspberry-pi-zero
- gloves 11y agoClearly alot of the technology is newer than the 80's - more interested in a general idea of how far we've come...
- gloves 11y agoClearly alot of the technology is newer than the 80's - more interested in a general idea of how far we've come...
- osullivj 11y agoSame as a Sinclair ZX81? Approx 70GBP for the assembled system, 50GBP for the kit.
- wnkrshm 11y agoIf you go by the price of the FLOPS the system has, you can get a price for a similarly powerful system from the 80s in inflation-adjusted USD today. According to Wikipedia, the hardware with the lowest cost per 1.0 GFLOPS was the Cray X-MP [1], so you'd have to pay around USD 42M in today's currency for the computing speed of the Raspberry Pi Zero (I assume 1.0 GFLOPS for the Raspberry Pi Zero) in 1984 (~18M USD in 1984's dollars). You could get an MB of RAM for USD 1,331 (1984's currency) in 1984 [2], which adds up to roughly USD 1.5M in today's currency. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Hardware_costs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Hardware_costs [2] http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm