Below you will find a short index of the computers we bought since 1979, and then a price index from 1875 to 2010 in case you want to look up some prices mentioned in certain years a decade or a century ago would actually be today. For example, a teenager watching Roger Rabbit mentioned that the $100 Bob Hoskins received for working on the case was an extremely low figure. However, an examination of the figure below for 1947 will reveal that prices then were about 17.5% which would make Hoskins' fee about $600 in our 1993 dollars we use today. . .even if the physical dollars are the same. So, what happens to the value that was lost from our dollars that do not buy as much by a factor of 17.5% since 1947 ? Let's imagine for a moment that we are financial wizards and have all the financial connections open to such wizards; the early 1970's are a perfect example: Nixon is in office, and he releases the dollar from the $35 per ounce price supports the dollar has had since Roosevelt took us off the standards of direct gold exchange to end the Depression in the 1930's. As an example, we send a million of our dollars to somewhere we CAN buy gold [it was illegal then for US citizens to have gold, unless they were coin collectors or worked gold in the professions, such as dentistry, jewelry, etc.] So, we have bought a million dollars worth of gold at around $35 per ounce, which was a pretty fixed price at the time. Now, the price restrictions of $35 per ounce are removed and the price of gold goes up to $755 per ounce, just about what it did during the next few months after the price release. Now our gold is worth 21 times as many dollars as it was, so we now can sell the gold and get 21 million dollars. When we spend this 21 million dollars, we are competing with all the other dollars in the marketplace, and prices have to go up as a result, because there are now more dollars but no more anything else. . .so dollars get cheap, and all dollars everywhere give up a percentage of their value to pay for an increase in the number of dollars WE have. So, if all these dollars lose 5% of their value, then we can buy a 20 million dollar share of the future with our 21 million dollars while everyone else loses 5% of the money they let sit in pockets, under the mattress, or wherever. Half of the value of every dollar disappeared from 1979-1993 [a period in which the Cost/Price Indexes rose at about 6%]. And those 1979 dollars would buy only half as much as a 1969 dollar bought, when prices were rising even more quickly. And those 1969 dollars were buying only half of what dollars bought in 1947. Here are the doubling years: