TMW Ideas

This advert is from the early 1980s

In today's money that value according to Measuring Worth could be:
$5,914.95 using the Consumer Price Index
$5,205.15 using the GDP deflator
$7,154.63 using the value of consumer bundle
$5,898.05 using the unskilled wage
$8,552.13 using the nominal GDP per capita
$11,140.79 using the relative share of GDP

whilst in the present it is almost impossible to buy anything less than a 1Gigabyte memory stick which costs under GBP 10, has 62 times more storage capacity and fits on a key ring.

The only place to find 16Megabytes is now on ebay and comes in at USD 0.95.