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These boards were $666 in 1976, about $4K in today's money. Plus you had supply a TV, power supply, keyboard, and punch tape reader. That was twice my income in those days.


Going by CPI it's actually about $2,800 in today's money. Still a significant amount of cash though.

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=666.00&year1=19...


I'm not fantastic at math, but I think that makes it about an 11.3% annual rate of return after inflation. That's not outrageous, but I'd take that investment.




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