Sometimes it's the little things that can influence buying decisions.
Amazing, isn't it? A century has passed, yet this is about what some consumers might pay in today's dollars for an incomparably better product on sale at a big box. Just as dazzling as technological progress has been the cheap revolution that has made so many high-tech gizmos available to the masses. Remember what a big decision it was to buy a personal computer just a decade ago? Now it's virtually an impulse buy. Modern PC's and laptops contain a thousand times the memory at a small fraction of the price we paid in 1995, with little performance difference between brands.