On 28 Aug 2002 at 21:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, if a new rig is $1500 to $3000, how is a $500 boatanchor > something "that only the very well off can afford." My HT-37 set me > back $495 in 1961 and my HQ-180C was $449 at the same time. THAT, my > friend, was expensive! I paid for it by loading freight cars over the > summer for the princely sum of 75 cents an hour! That's right!. I > worked all week for a gross pay of $30
Must have been a heck of a long summer that year... Thirty-one and a half weeks! This also assumes that your parents clothed you, fed you and paid the bills! Grin
