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Subject: | Re: LF: 40 years (completely OT, but...) |
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Date: | Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:48:45 +0000 (GMT) |
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Aaar ........ Edgware Rd, Lyle St, Tottenham Court Rd, Kaynsham ....... I don't know where that last one came from but it must fit in there some where.
From: Andy Talbot <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 15 February, 2011 19:19:51 Subject: LF: 40 years (completely OT, but...) 40 Years ago today decimal money was introduced to the UK It was half term hols, and at the age of 12 I went into one of the electronics shops in Hurst St, Birmingham (a bit like London's Edgware Rd. back then) to buy two IN4007 diodes as I needed to make a PSU for some valve project. Being my first purchase with the new money I remember exactly how much those two diodes cost : The two diodes were 50 new pence, (which probably sounded a lot less than ten shillings they were the day before)
Consulting an RPI chart shows about 1100% inflation since Feb 1971 which makes those two diodes something like £5.50 at today's prices.
The current cost from Farnell for the IN4007 is about 8p, including VAT, for two-off.
Now, even allowing for the fact a local electronics shop would have a massive mark up on components, the price from a catalogue supplier would still have been in the 15 - 20p (£1.50 - £2 now) region.
Were electronic components really so much more expensive back then - it wasn't an exotic diode.
Completely OT, and nothing whatosover to do with LF, but about the only bit of component pricing I really recall accurately from those days.
Andy G4JNT (or G8IMR 3 years after the big diode rip-off) |
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