12-16-18 00:02 JIM WELLER wrote to ED VANCE about steak prices
Howdy! Jim,

 JW> {at}MSGID: 

 -=> Quoting Ed Vance to Dave Drum <=-

 EV> In 1966 the cheapest Beef Steak we could find at the Grocery
 EV> was Round Steak. Then 39 Cents a Pound  -  now  'through the
 EV> roof'.

 JW> When you look at the rate of inflation, the cost of food generally
 JW> and increasing incomes over time, steak actually coasts about the
 JW> same as it always did. Chicken got cheaper (but tying this up with
 JW> another thread, not better), gasoline got more expensive (after
 JW> 1974) and electronics got way cheaper.

I can't figure the Ratio of what I remember food items costing long ago
and what they cost now.

I do remember for 79 Cents US buying a package of 4 rolls of toilet paper
having 365 two layer sheets to a roll, and how it is packaged now.

One comment I made in a Amateur Radio echo was about the Diameter of
the paper core being larger than it was long ago.

My comment there was about if one of the newer larger cores had the same
amount of wire wound on it, would the Inductance of the Coil make any
difference to the other components in a circuit to make a Crystal Radio
to listen to a AM Broadcast Radio Station.

Probably Not Much, but there would be a slight change in the value of the
Coil, iirc.


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