Comments on: 12th August 1981: The birth of the IBM PC http://link4business.info/2008/08/12th-october-1981-the-birth-of-the-ibm-pc/ Starting, Growing & Running Your Business Sun, 13 May 2012 14:24:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: James Green http://link4business.info/2008/08/12th-october-1981-the-birth-of-the-ibm-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-64 James Green Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:30:43 +0000 http://link4business.info/?p=108#comment-64 Thanks Danielle. No I'm not quite that old. A good night out on sixpence I can just about remember. Actually I was talking with someone the other day and saying that when I got my first car the big issue surrounding pertrol prices was whether a gallon would break through the 5 shilling (25p) ceiling. I bought mine from a Jet garage which sold a gallon for 4 shillings and eleven and a half pence. Yep, thats right - 5 new pence per litre. But of course wages were much lower so you are not comparing like for like. But as it happens 5 shillings in 1968 is the equivalent of £3.13 today. Or to put it another way £1 then is the equivalent of £12.50 today. So that gallon was in fact a lot cheaper. You can work these sort of values out at the following site: http://www.measuringworth.com/index.html Thanks for your good wishes. As for keeping it up - yep, these little blue pills do the job! Thanks Danielle. No I’m not quite that old. A good night out on sixpence I can just about remember. Actually I was talking with someone the other day and saying that when I got my first car the big issue surrounding pertrol prices was whether a gallon would break through the 5 shilling (25p) ceiling. I bought mine from a Jet garage which sold a gallon for 4 shillings and eleven and a half pence. Yep, thats right – 5 new pence per litre.

But of course wages were much lower so you are not comparing like for like. But as it happens 5 shillings in 1968 is the equivalent of £3.13 today. Or to put it another way £1 then is the equivalent of £12.50 today.

So that gallon was in fact a lot cheaper.

You can work these sort of values out at the following site:

http://www.measuringworth.com/index.html

Thanks for your good wishes. As for keeping it up – yep, these little blue pills do the job!

]]> By: Danielle http://link4business.info/2008/08/12th-october-1981-the-birth-of-the-ibm-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Danielle Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:08:25 +0000 http://link4business.info/?p=108#comment-58 Gosh what's it like to be soooo old? You'll be telling us next about going to the cinema having a coke and a bag of crisps and getting change out of a penny. Seriously though - your posts are interesting. Keep it up. Gosh what’s it like to be soooo old? You’ll be telling us next about going to the cinema having a coke and a bag of crisps and getting change out of a penny.

Seriously though – your posts are interesting. Keep it up.

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