Blast From The Past

[rushboarduk]

This campaign takes me back:

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-2/description

 

They've passed all but one of the stretch goals, so it'll be fun to see what that is (maybe an RGB keyboard?)

 

[Roswell]

It’s outrageously overpriced, holy crap. There’s something wrong when you’re paying more today than you did almost 40 years ago.

[Bitter]

16 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

It’s outrageously overpriced, holy crap. There’s something wrong when you’re paying more today than you did almost 40 years ago.

Heard of inflation?

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

If it was $200 USD in 1982 at launch it would be $537 now. Kickstarter price there looks to be $394 USD including shipping and taxes, so actually it's cheaper than it used to be!

[Roswell]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

Heard of inflation?

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

If it was $200 USD in 1982 at launch it would be $537 now. Kickstarter price there looks to be $394 USD including shipping and taxes, so actually it's cheaper than it used to be!

Yeah, heard of it, thanks. Thing is, it released at £125. Then was quickly slashed to £100 a year later and then a fraction of that for the next decade. Thanks for the economics lesson though. 

 

Inflation aside, you're shelling out $400 for 1MB of RAM, a 28Mhz Z80 and an SD card slot. 

[kelvinhall05]

Fuck me that guy is smoking something if he thinks he's getting that much for it. That's like, what, $5-10 at most of actual hardware? I doubt there is $500 (CAD) of plastic case and keyboard there.

 

 

Anyone who buys one of these is out of their mind.

[The Sloth]

10 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

 

Anyone who buys one of these is out of their mind.

Bunch of old people getting nostalgic, bunch of kids wants something as a prop and youtubers. You can buy the original ones for cheaper, which has actual historical value. 

 

 

10 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

That's like, what, $5-10 at most of actual hardware?

 i can see paying 50- 100, due to all the work they have to do but 500$ is pusing it by a lot. 

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Vitamanic said:

Yeah, heard of it, thanks. Thing is, it released at £125. Then was quickly slashed to £100 a year later and then a fraction of that for the next decade. Thanks for the economics lesson though. 

 

Inflation aside, you're shelling out $400 for 1MB of RAM, a 28Mhz Z80 and an SD card slot. 

Ok, convert to lbs.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

125# in 1982 is 444.88# in 2019. 100 is 355.

 

So really the price hasn't increased all that much, the value of the components has gone down substantially and that is a valid argument but they're free to sell at whatever price they wish to sell at, see Intel.

[Doqtori]

2 hours ago, Bitter said:

but they're free to sell at whatever price they wish to sell at

Doesn't mean they're gonna sell any, though at that price just selling 2 probably makes enough profit to make 50 more, lol