[bombcar]

The selectric ii at $900 in 1980 is about 3,300 today.

Probably can get a pretty nice keyboard for that.

[TradingPlaces]

The more accurate way of looking at it is using the "Office and accounting equipment” deflator, which puts it at $1291 in 2022 dollars, about the price of a decent laptop, which makes sense to me.

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