In those days the Australian $ was worth about 55c US. No VAT or GST, and I have no idea whether there was an import duty on computers - probably was, but effect unknown. For the camera, the A$ was probably about 66c US by then, and 10% GST.
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sent: Friday, 14 February 2014 12:53 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: When did equipment get so cheap? What were the exchange rates back then and how much of that cost was VAT or other import duties? On 2/13/2014 2:42 AM, John Coyle wrote: > Very first computer I ever specified and bought for my employer was an > HP86A, green screen, 2 * 5.25 floppies, plug-in 64k memory module, Epson > M1500 printer and an HP plotter - bargain at $13,500! > My *istD I bought for a heavily discounted $1900 direct from the importer. > > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of CollinB > Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2014 10:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: When did equipment get so cheap? > >> Yeah, that's it. The same sort of thing happened with PC's. Remember >> what the first XT's cost? >> >> Alan C > > When I was selling Apple ][ plus computers, people would spend $2500+ > on the system to run a $200 VisiCalc program. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
