If 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

If 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