November 8, 20205 yr Thanks for the memories. I almost bought this for my five year-old son at Christmas that year but my wife reminded me that he was as clumsy as I and broke everything he touched. What can you buy today for that price? Not even two cups of Starbucks. Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
November 8, 20205 yr FS 1964, complete with SODE lol! I thought I'd hit the mother lode and found a video on youtube of that toy. Well... it IS a YT video, but it's a slideshow so no action footage sadly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4gIwIMYLI Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
November 8, 20205 yr The imagination was the most powerful graphics processor back in those days and everyone had one 😀 Matthew Kane I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me
November 8, 20205 yr In 1964 dollars (I remember well) 8.94 was not chunk change. That would have been a pretty big gift, like Christmas big. I was 12 then and worked that summer cutting grass with my Dads lawn mower. Saved up a whole twenty bucks. Vic green
November 8, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, Matthew Kane said: and everyone had one 😀 We still do.. but technology can hand us so much on a metaphorical plate these days.. Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
November 9, 20205 yr 4 hours ago, W2DR said: What can you buy today for that price? Not even two cups of Starbucks. If you extrapolate that $8.94 price tag back in 1964, into today's comparable cost, it works out at $75.06. So not really a particularly cheap toy at the time. For comparison, most new cars in the UK in 1964 would cost somewhere around the 500-600 quid price point (which was equivalent to somewhere around 750 Dollars), so you can see how 8 Dollars in 1964, whilst not a fortune, was nevertheless quite a significant amount to spend on a toy. I should think it's a pretty rare find nowadays, given that it was pricey and so probably did not sell in huge numbers. Edited November 9, 20205 yr by Chock Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
November 9, 20205 yr My older brother bought a brand new Volkswagen Beetle in 1968. I don't know the exact price but I don't think it was much over a thousand. Vic green
November 9, 20205 yr I bought a new Beetle in 1967 for the sum of USD$1635 and a Datsun in 1969 for USD$1910. Bought a really nice new house in 1966 for USD$18,100 and sold it in 1969 for USD$32,500. Bought another house in 1969 for USD$42,000 and sold it in 1979 for USD$89,000. Today the cars aren't worth anything but the second house sold three years ago for USD$933,000. Moral of the story? Live in it, don't drive it. Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
November 9, 20205 yr Oooooh, I would love to have that now! I had a substantial fleet of die cast airplanes as a kid and would conduct flights to airports all over the house 🙂 Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
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