"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:58:09 -0700, David Eduardo wrote:

"dave" wrote in message
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D Peter Maus wrote:

$149 was 2 weeks pay in 1948.

After deductions, about $37 was a minimum wage weekly net pay in 1960
when the minimum was something like $1.10.

Or about $149 a month, net.

So your handy-dandy recorder cost ~$2,000 in 2008 dollars?

The ratio 1946 to 2008 is about 12 to 1. $129 in 1946 is $1500 in today's
dollars.

If you think about a communications receiver, the $150 receiver of '46 is
the $1500 receiver today. (Or was if they still made the R8B)