{"id":603,"date":"2009-11-03T21:48:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2009-11-04T10:35:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T15:35:01","slug":"the-true-price-of-vintage-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/603\/the-true-price-of-vintage-computers","title":{"rendered":"Vintage vs. Modern PC Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/10\/25\/pc-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/technologizer\/pc_cost_small.jpg\" alt=\"Classic PCs vs. New PCs Technologizer\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amongst all the heady <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/601\" target=\"_blank\">anniversary festivities<\/a> (I&#8217;ve been to five parties this week alone*), I almost forgot to tell you about a new <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>-related article that popped up last week on Technologizer.  It&#8217;s by a guy named Benj Edwards, which probably explains why I&#8217;m writing about it here.<\/p>\n<p>For my latest Technologizer article, <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/10\/25\/pc-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Classic PCs vs. New PCs<\/em><\/a>, I selected six vintage personal computers from yesteryear and figured out what you could buy today for the same price.  And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not talking original retail price here; I took inflation into account.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the Commodore 64 &#8212; once considered a low-cost home computer &#8212; originally sold for the equivalent of $1,331.62 in 2009 dollars.  Today you can get quite a bit for that much money.  How much?  That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/10\/25\/pc-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\">find out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>* Five all-nude FORTRAN coding jamborees, invitational<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst all the heady VC&#038;G anniversary festivities (I&#8217;ve been to five parties this week alone*), I almost forgot to tell you about a new VC&#038;G-related article that popped up last week on Technologizer. It&#8217;s by a guy named Benj Edwards, which probably explains why I&#8217;m writing about it here. For my latest Technologizer article, Classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}