Inner Banks Laughter - Technical Humor

This week I was showing a customer the pricing for a new laptop computer for their son to take to college. It included wireless Internet, a camera to take movies and allow picture phone calls to home and online backup. It was $1,000. The price was a concern.

It reminded me of how far we have come. Above is an ad for the PC that was the HOT, NEW THING IN LATE 1989. A Tandy Computer that did not include a Monitor, or a Mouse (those were an extra $1,000 by themselves) and if you wanted text only Internet it would set you back another $1,000 per month for a fractional T-1 line.

The inflation adjusted price for this pitifully slow, DOS based Tandy computer in 2007 dollars would be $30,000. Things have really changed!