In my microwave thread Roger talked about his first microwave costing about £300.
Made me think of my first video player, a Hitachi VHS machine, with wireless remote control (- many were wired then) for a tad under £700. I can't exactly pinpoint when that would have been but I'm guessing 1980.
Also my first "portable" SatNav - TomTom's only model out at the time, somewhere around £400. I also had the voice-only SmartNav (www.vehicle-accessories.net/Smartnav-by-Trafficmaster/Smartnav-Satellite-Navigation-System) which I think cost around £400 plus a monthly sub of maybe £15.
And lastly, I worked for a company which went into IBM-clone PC manufacture in the 80s and a mate bought a really well specc'd 386 machine on a staff loan of just over £3000k.
You couldn't spend that much on equivalent items today if you tried... Any other examples out there?
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The cost of being an early adopter new
The cost of being an early adopter new
