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Re: LF: 40 years (completely OT, but...)

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Subject: Re: LF: 40 years (completely OT, but...)
From: M0FMT <[email protected]>
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.
 
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From: Andy Talbot <[email protected]>
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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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