Might as well work out what $2495.00 in 1984 equates to today... I used this site: http://www.usinflationcalculator.com http://www.usinflationcalculator.com

Might as well work out what $2495.00 in 1984 equates to today... I used this site: http://www.usinflationcalculator.com http://www.usinflationcalculator.com $2495 in 1984 inflates to a hard to swallow $5,594.11, an increase of 124.2%. Being a limey this this is hard for me to comprehend. So I looked at this page: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/EXUSUK.txt http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/EXUSUK.txt There were $1.4076 per £1 in January 1984, which roughly equates as £0.71 per $1. So if I wanted to buy a brand new Mac 30 years ago, I would have had to cough up around £3974 in today's money. A quick browse for IMac prices, around £1300 (~$2135, the dollar had a higher value compared to the pound in 1984 than today). My father's IMac boasts a 2Ghz processor. How many of your vital organs would you have to sell on Ebay to buy 2Ghz of kick in 1984? Here is a picture of a Cray X-MP: http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/8c4/74c/8c474c54-5c11-43ed-840e-f7ecf617a5d4 http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/8c4/74c/8c474c54-... A Cray X-MP in 1984 would cost about $15,000,000 for 105Mhz, so I would require 19 Crays, costing a total of $285,000,000. Taking into account inflation, today that would be a bank-breaking $639,006,208. I'm trying to remember the source, but I think the CDC 7600 packed 512Kb of memory back in 1969. The Mac had a comparable amount but cost about a 1000 times less.