Interested... for the spec the Raspberry Pi has, how much would it have cost historically to purchase?<p>- A Broadcom BCM2835 application processor
- 1GHz ARM11 core (40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1)
- 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM
- A micro-SD card slot
- A mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output
- Micro-USB sockets for data and power
- An unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header
- Identical pinout to Model A+/B+/2B
- An unpopulated composite video header
- Our smallest ever form factor, at 65mm x 30mm x 5mm<p>http://raspberry.piaustralia.com.au/products/raspberry-pi-zero
If you go by the price of the FLOPS the system has, you can get a price for a similarly powerful system from the 80s in inflation-adjusted USD today.<p>According to Wikipedia, the hardware with the lowest cost per 1.0 GFLOPS was the Cray X-MP [1], so you'd have to pay around USD 42M in today's currency for the computing speed of the Raspberry Pi Zero (I assume 1.0 GFLOPS for the Raspberry Pi Zero) in 1984 (~18M USD in 1984's dollars).<p>You could get an MB of RAM for USD 1,331 (1984's currency) in 1984 [2], which adds up to roughly USD 1.5M in today's currency.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Hardware_costs" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Hardware_costs</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm</a>