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RE: Even the Raspberry Pi has a little friend
My first usable computer.
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(I'd previously built an Elf)
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The Trash 80, as it was not so affectionately called cost
$500...and did approximately nothing. It had a fricking audio casset player for external memory...It was not as powerful as the raspberry pi yet cost one hundred times as much.
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The first useable computer I owned was the Amiga
![](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Amiga500_system.jpg)
which cost me $700. After a few years of using it I got my first hard drive.
ten megabytes for $2400. (15 gigabytes available free many places on the cloud today)
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Ten thousand dollars worth of memory in 1980 is free today
![](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://hblok.net/storage_data/storage_memory_prices-2013-02.png)
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and yet a house today cost ten times as much now as it did then.
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I know how you feel...