> Good point, except that the price pretty much stabilised in the 1970's. > What changed was production costs - it is now laughably cheap to produce
Amen to that. 50 cents (or less) per blank CD and a few minutes' time is all that is required to produce a CD. Blank/recordable CD's for music are higher but no different than the disks for 'computer' use. The blank music CDs are artificially higher because of piracy scares. Even so, that's nothing compared to the cost to 'stamp' a vinyl or master a CD not too long ago - manufacturing might make the per-cd or per-LP cost cheap, but only in bulk, and only after amortizing the cost for expensive duplicating equipment. > 1982, any more than, were anyone to make one, a 100MHz CPU should cost > the same as one from that era. Which doesn't cost all that much to make - at least not in quantity. Most of the cost is in development. Interesting tidbit - back in October 2000 I paid about US $165 for a 30 gig hard drive. Not nearly a great deal by today's standards, but that's about 1500 (!) 20 meg drives, of which I bought 1 (my first HD) in 1986, for about $300. > Sir Robin
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