In article , "Dee D. Flint"
writes:

Just to put those numbers in perspective, I'll list some other things that I
remember from 1973-1974. An engineer who had just graduated with a
Bachelor's degree from college was getting about $10,000 to $11,000 per
year. A nice 1200 sq ft house with full basement and decent sized yard
could be purchased in the suburbs around Seattle for under $30,000 and the
monthly payment was under $300 per month.

I graduated EE school in 1976 and those numbers are right in line with my
experience (1976 numbers about 15% higher due to inflation).

Some other datapoints:

- New car prices ranged from $3000 to $5000
- Gasoline was about 60 cents a gallon
- A year's tuition at an Ivy League university was $4500
- Ham rig prices were somewhat less than today's prices Maybe 60-75%.
- Inflation was double digit and interest rates were not far behind

73 de Jim, N2EY