Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In 1988, the cost of a powerful 386 PC was $5,000 and had 275,000 transistors in the microprocessor. In 1997, the cost of a super powerful Pentium II PC was still $5,000 and had 7.5 million transistors. Here is a google list of things that cost around $5,000: <http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=what+costs+%245%2C000&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&lnk=pruser&price1=4500&price2=5500> I like the bamboo forest and the onion greenhouse. The hot tub is real nice. Don't let you wife see what kind of rock she could have dangling from her ears for 5g's or it's back to the P&S. At 04:23 PM 7/29/2009, you wrote: >I can tell you for a fact that in Feb, if someone were to offer me >$500 for a pint of blood, I'd have done it. > >So yay, it's a lot of money. > >On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Richard Taylor<r.s.taylor at comcast.net> >wrote: > > It's still an awful lot of money. > > > > Regards, > > > >-- >// richard m: richard @imagecraft.com >// w: http://www.rfman.com blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com >// book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963 > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information