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From: George Kerby on 27 Jul 2010 14:56 On 7/27/10 1:46 PM, in article michelle-6D0B9A.11463127072010(a)news.eternal-september.org, "Michelle Steiner" <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In 1984: All-in-one Macintosh with 128K RAM, 9" monochromatic monitor, 1 > 400K floppy drive, 8 MHz 60000 singe core processor, two serial ports, one > dedicated mouse port, one dedicated floppy-drive port, keyboard, mouse, one > speaker that beeps and a box of ten 3.5" Apple-branded floppy disks. > MacWrite and MacPaint software. (2010 equivalent price is $5,354.71 > .) > > > In 2010: All-in-one Macintosh with 8G RAM, 27' color monitor, 2 TB hard > drive, DVD drive, 2.93 GHz quad core i7 processor, built-in video and still > camera and microphone, audio and video in and out jacks, stereo speakers > one firewire port, four USB ports, SDXC slot, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, > one 1-gigabit ethernet port, keyboard and mouse, but no recording media. > iLife software and a slew of utilities and Unix software. (2010 equivalent > price is $2550.) > > Any omissions are purely inadvertent. September 7, 1984 - a share of AAPL (adjusted price) - $3.02 July 27, 2010 - a share of AAPL (last trade quote) - $264.04
From: Tim Okergit on 27 Jul 2010 15:03 On 07/27/2010 02:46 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote: > In 1984: All-in-one Macintosh with 128K RAM, 9" monochromatic monitor, 1 > 400K floppy drive, 8 MHz 60000 singe core processor, two serial ports, one > dedicated mouse port, one dedicated floppy-drive port, keyboard, mouse, one > speaker that beeps and a box of ten 3.5" Apple-branded floppy disks. > MacWrite and MacPaint software. (2010 equivalent price is $5,354.71 > .) > > In 2010: All-in-one Macintosh with 8G RAM, 27' color monitor, 2 TB hard > drive, DVD drive, 2.93 GHz quad core i7 processor, built-in video and still > camera and microphone, audio and video in and out jacks, stereo speakers > one firewire port, four USB ports, SDXC slot, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, > one 1-gigabit ethernet port, keyboard and mouse, but no recording media. > iLife software and a slew of utilities and Unix software. (2010 equivalent > price is $2550.) You should see what half this price can get you in the PC world!
From: nospam on 27 Jul 2010 15:34 In article <C8749620.39D7F%ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com>, George Kerby <ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > September 7, 1984 - a share of AAPL (adjusted price) - $3.02 > > July 27, 2010 - a share of AAPL (last trade quote) - $264.04 you forgot to adjust for splits.
From: nospam on 27 Jul 2010 15:34 In article <i2na84$4c2$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Tim Okergit <to(a)notme.com> wrote: > You should see what half this price can get you in the PC world! half the performance/specs.
From: nospam on 27 Jul 2010 15:59
In article <michelle-AE70C2.12543227072010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > September 7, 1984 - a share of AAPL (adjusted price) - $3.02 > > > > > > July 27, 2010 - a share of AAPL (last trade quote) - $264.04 > > > > you forgot to adjust for splits. > > I think that's what "adjusted price" did. oops, missed that. |