Staff quality at Radio Shack

[Phil]

On 5 Nov 2015, at 19:11, Rob Seastrom wrote:

> 
> Phil via Tacos <tacos at amrad.org> writes:
> 
>> Reading a 1968 copy of Practical Wireless recently reminded me that
>> bog-standard transistors at that time retailed for six shillings (45
>> cents US at today's prices) each.
> 
> You accounted for decimalization and conversion, but not inflation.
> 
> Six shillings in 1968 is approximately $7.00 today, inflation-corrected.

>> Yes - I meant 6 shillings = 30 p = 45 c at today's exchange rate. I didn't know what the exchange rate was in 1968.
> 
>> Given that my pocket money then was only five shillings a week, it's
>> hardly surprising that I got very little built! For equivalent
>> teenage buying power today, kids can jump in with an Arduino and
>> achieve much more. The world has changed, brother!
> 
> Two transistors and some resistors and caps...  or an Arduino
> knock-off.  Which would you take?

>> Then or now?  :-)

Phil M1GWZ