On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 02:54:08PM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote: > On 1/6/2019 12:24 PM, allison via cctalk wrote: >> The small beauty of being there... FYI back then (1972) a 7400 was about >> 25 cents and 7483 adder was maybe $1.25. Least that's what I paid. > Checks my favorite supplier. > $1.25 for 7400 and $4.00 for a 7483. > It has gone up in price.
Thanks to inflation, $0.25 in 1972 is worth $1.51 now. Likewise, $1.25 has inflated to $7.54. So they're cheaper in real terms than they used to be. However, it's still not entirely comparable, as I suspect nobody's making 74-series chips any more so you're buying NOS. A modern equivalent would be a microcontroller, which start at well under a dollar.