Untitled attachment

Notices where this attachment appears

1. Embed this notice
   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 05:02:48 JST Charlie Stross

   This is your reminder that for the past 40 years the price of consumer electronics underwent roughly 10% compound *deflation* year by year.

   An entry level Android or iPhone is every non-shooty-bang-or-transportation James Bond gadget rolled into one for the inflation-adjusted cost of a 35mm film SLR or a Commodore 64 back in 1984.

   It's also much more powerful than every supercomputer on the planet back then, in combination.

   And it's in your pocket.
   https://canada.masto.host/@graydon/113579152811903958

2. Embed this notice
   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 18:13:04 JST Charlie Stross

   I remember when I first saw a CPC464 in a shop I was working in, in 1984.

   It was a very neat answer to what the market needed in 1982. But by 1984, cassette storage and Z80s were clearly long in the tooth—it came out the same year as the Macintosh, and 12 months late Atari STs and Amigas were showing up.
   https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/112351091848131466