My first usable computer.

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(I'd previously built an Elf)
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The Trash 80, as it was not so affectionately called cost
$500...and did approximately nothing. It had a fricking audio casset player for external memory...It was not as powerful as the raspberry pi yet cost one hundred times as much.
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The first useable computer I owned was the Amiga

which cost me $700. After a few years of using it I got my first hard drive.
ten megabytes for $2400. (15 gigabytes available free many places on the cloud today)
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Ten thousand dollars worth of memory in 1980 is free today

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and yet a house today cost ten times as much now as it did then.

Why the difference?