It's amazing how cheap computer things have gotten... (Fry's in USA) Tho some are junk...
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64G usb flash stick: $12; $20 for USB3; microSD: a bit $more; 128GB also
Printer, wifi, cheap HP: $20 (on rare sale days)
Gb wifi router AP, but still expensive, $1xx-$300+
32" HD LED TV: $89 (some LG = good brand, I guess)
$5-$25&up BT speakers. MetroPCS 2 free Androids $50/mo w/hotspot!
&on &on ... There's probably web for similar internationally
Ah, but if you're in NY State (especially the Hudson Valley) we only have expensive stores here. And none of them want to actually carry stock either. No Fry's.
Just an example for the record, the above noted price for a 4TB drive (under $100 USD) is in line with Best Buy who still has some brick and mortar stores as well as from online only stores like Amazon and Newegg. In fact I recently bought an HP Officejet Network printer off the floor at a Best Buy for just under $100 USD and the had a factory refurbished unit for half that.
Who would have thought 50 years ago that televisions would become so relatively inexpensive that families could have three or four of them?
My first home computer was a Tandy 386 with DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, and an 85MB HDD purchased on clearance in I think 1990 for about what my Zareason Limbo, with upgraded HDD and CPU (and with Slackware installed out-of-the-box), cost me new a couple of years ago.
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