{"id":565,"date":"2007-11-11T14:37:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2007\/11\/11\/your_daily_dose_of_perspective\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T14:37:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T14:37:55","slug":"your_daily_dose_of_perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2007\/11\/11\/your_daily_dose_of_perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Your daily dose of perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the process of moving our home office, we&#8217;ve come across a 1988 price list for a computer company where Dr. T worked once upon a time, which reveals a couple of things:<br \/>\n1 ~ this is <i>exactly<\/i> the kind of thing I&#8217;m talking about when I complain that the man never throws anything out. I mean really, 1988??<br \/>\n2 ~ computer technology (in case you hadn&#8217;t noticed) has skyrocketed in terms of capability and plummeted in terms of price. We are all pretty much aware of this, but the 1988 price list offers some concrete examples:<br \/>\nHP laser printer: $6,750<br \/>\nHayes 1200 baud external modem: $649<br \/>\nIBM PS\/2 (featuring 2 Mb RAM, 115 Mb hard drive &#8211; and that&#8217;s Mb, not Gb; and there&#8217;s no monitor): $14,000 (add $350 for a 12&#8243; black &amp; white monitor, and at least $850 for colour)<br \/>\nCompaq portable 386 (featuring 1 Mb RAM and 40 Mb hard drive): $10,595<br \/>\nRight now, I am creating this entry on my sexy new laptop, which features 2 Gb RAM, 160 Gb hard drive, 17&#8243; anti-glare screen, integrated webcam, wireless, etc., etc., for which I paid about a thousand dollars &#8211; one-tenth what I would have had to shell out for that portable Compaq. <em>And <\/em> my SNL is &#8216;espresso&#8217; brown &#8211; it&#8217;s like a huge slab of cyberchocolate.<br \/>\nJust the way I like &#8217;em: sexy, powerful, chocolatey, and, as it turns out, cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the process of moving our home office, we&#8217;ve come across a 1988 price list for a computer company where Dr. T worked once upon a time, which reveals a couple of things: 1 ~ this is exactly the kind of thing I&#8217;m talking about when I complain that the man never throws anything out. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2007\/11\/11\/your_daily_dose_of_perspective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your daily dose of perspective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}