price index?

[Sysman]

£217 + VAT for an IBM keyboard in the mid/late 80's, pretty certain that's what they charged for the PS/2 keyboards too.

I clearly remember buying 200 1mb SIMMs at £100 a go (bargain at the time) for a job at Leeds Uni in the mid 90's.

1970s - I think it was £3K for a PDP-11 memory board (32KB or 64KB?), over £1K for a VT100 and something like £1,300 for a DEC dot matrix printer.

piccies

All in, that PDP cost more than the sum of the houses the DP staff had.

[Board Game Geek]

Owlhoot posted I wonder if anyone here is old enough to have invoiced in guineas

If the global recession gets any worse, we may be returning to something not that far removed from your initial comment.

However, replace guineas with guinea pigs.

[OwlHoot]

I paid over £1000 for a Sony Super VHS video recorder back in 1986, probably equivalent to at least double or even triple that today, and I don't recall ever using the Super VHS mode once

[TykeMerc]

£217 + VAT for an IBM keyboard in the mid/late 80's, pretty certain that's what they charged for the PS/2 keyboards too.

I clearly remember buying 200 1mb SIMMs at £100 a go (bargain at the time) for a job at Leeds Uni in the mid 90's.

[Sysman]

I wonder if anyone here is old enough to have invoiced in guineas

(and before anyone suggests it, I'm not )

As far as I can remember, guineas were always the preserve of doctors, tailors and the legal profession. We mere mortals didn't get a look in.

Real reason: probably that Decimalisation Day was so long ago.

[OwlHoot]

Just found an invoice for my contracting in 1988. Banking in the City: £19.00 per hour.

I wonder if anyone here is old enough to have invoiced in guineas

(and before anyone suggests it, I'm not )

[Doggy Styles]

Just found an invoice for my contracting in 1988. Banking in the City: £19.00 per hour.

I've still got 1991 invoices for my second contract, £13.00 per hour.

At the time it was better than £0.00 per hour as we entered recession.

[landl]

I can beat that...

On bench. Clearing out old paperwork at home. just found an invoice for part of my first PC:

3rd May 1988.
Seagate ST4096 hard disk, 80 Mb (yes, MEGAbytes)
£528.00

...32Kb Vixen memory expansion pack for Commodore Vic-20. Sometime in the 1980s. £120.

[expat]

Just found an invoice for my contracting in 1988. Banking in the City: £19.00 per hour.

[expat]

WTF 80 MB in 98 cost you £528?

You got ripped off mate.

That has happened often, indeed, but this disk was in 1988. My mistake.

[snaw]

On bench. Clearing out old paperwork at home. just found an invoice for part of my first PC:

3rd May 1998.
Seagate ST4096 hard disk, 80 Mb (yes, MEGAbytes)
£528.00

WTF 80 MB in 98 cost you £528?

You got ripped off mate.

[expat]

On bench. Clearing out old paperwork at home. just found an invoice for part of my first PC:

3rd May 1988.
Seagate ST4096 hard disk, 80 Mb (yes, MEGAbytes)
£528.00