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How much would you pay for a PC with 128KB RAM, and no hard disk?

In today's money (inflation adjusted)

This an ad from Personal Computer World (UK) from 1985

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The conversion is wrong. £1500 in 1985 is £5814.92($7,359.45) today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just googled the conversion of the price from 1985 to today based on inflation and then googled the exchange rate between the current value in GBP to USD.