Recently nostr:npub15879mltlln6k8jy32k6xvagmtqx3zhsndchcey8gjyectwldk88sq5kv0n mentioned in an episode that tech is the one area that is deflationary rather than inflationary.

When he said it I recalled a quote I think from PC magazine from way back; "The PC you want costs $3,000.00 and it always will" or something along those lines. The idea being that as tech improved that leading edge mainstream would forever be in the $3,000 price point.

The idea seems ludicrous, but today I found this 'holiday catalog' from Swan Technologies. I'd purchased a 386sx/ 16 with a 40 meg hard drive, 4 meg of memory and 640x480 vga for around that very price in 1989 and a year later they sent this catalog with a 386dx/25 with an 84 meg hard drive, 1024x768Vga for that much.

Anyway, you can still get what amounts to a simulator (gaming PC) for $3k if you want to these days, but even the majority of graphics and video people don't even need to spend what a student did in 1989.

Of course there's this other Guy named Swann who's working on an AI system, so I'd be curious what kind of components and cost that calls for... Hoping he talks about it in his ai podcast..

So all that said, I can't imagine the "pc' I want ever costing $3000 again (the dollar's crash aside).

#GrowNostr