off topic - capatob - saratov2 computer Russsian pdp8? HELP

[Peter Corlett]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 02:54:08PM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 1/6/2019 12:24 PM, allison via cctalk wrote:
>> The small beauty of being there...   FYI back then (1972) a 7400 was about
>> 25 cents and 7483 adder was maybe $1.25.  Least that's what I paid.
> Checks my favorite supplier.
> $1.25 for 7400 and $4.00 for a 7483.
> It has gone up in price.

Thanks to inflation, $0.25 in 1972 is worth $1.51 now. Likewise, $1.25 has
inflated to $7.54. So they're cheaper in real terms than they used to be.

However, it's still not entirely comparable, as I suspect nobody's making
74-series chips any more so you're buying NOS. A modern equivalent would be a
microcontroller, which start at well under a dollar.