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@cstross @graydon yup.

2023 $150 – $300 (Best Buy and Amazon range)
2005 $4,000 (Sony)
1997 $22,900 (Fujitsu’s first 40″ plasma TV)

Or my fav:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1

CPU
64-bit processor @ 80 MHz[1]
Memory
8.39 Megabytes (up to 1 048 576 words)[1]
Storage
303 Megabytes (DD19 Unit)[1]
FLOPS
160 MFLOPS

You can’t actually buy a computer this slow, even system on a chips clobber it, you have to go to what is now a microcontroller like an esp32 to get this slow

Basically, the cost of the electricity used to run the cray-1 for 10 minutes will buy you a better computer nowadays.