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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
The price of that hardware today would be in the low single digits and could (save for the monitor obviously) be put on something that would fit comfortably in your pocket. In fact, the Raspberry Pi single chip computer will retail for about $25, and feature 256 times the ram and a 700mhz processor.
Which is all to say that the price of computer hardware has crashed precipitously. Which is also why new features get added to hardware constantly - it becomes cheap and easy to do it as hardware prices drop.
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Yes, I agree, but the point is that the price remains relatively constant, at least within an order of magnitude. What changes is the value of money and what it will get you. But a high end PC today costs nearly the same as a high end PC did 25 years ago.