{
 "id": "inflationprice",
 "baseYear": 2024,
 "cpiSource": "https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ — public domain US government data",
 "cpiFetched": "2026-08-01",
 "_note": "Launch prices are curated from public record, USD at US launch. The equivalent is computed from the BLS CPI-U table, not estimated.",
 "items": [
  {
   "year": 1972,
   "name": "HP-35 pocket calculator",
   "price": 395,
   "note": "The first scientific calculator you could put in a pocket.",
   "id": "i000",
   "today": 2963.08
  },
  {
   "year": 1976,
   "name": "Apple I",
   "price": 666.66,
   "note": "Sold as a bare board. You supplied the case, keyboard and screen.",
   "id": "i001",
   "today": 3674.77
  },
  {
   "year": 1977,
   "name": "Apple II",
   "price": 1298,
   "note": "4KB of RAM, colour graphics, cassette storage.",
   "id": "i002",
   "today": 6718.06
  },
  {
   "year": 1975,
   "name": "Altair 8800 kit",
   "price": 439,
   "note": "Programmed with front-panel switches. No screen, no keyboard.",
   "id": "i003",
   "today": 2558.85
  },
  {
   "year": 1981,
   "name": "IBM PC 5150",
   "price": 1565,
   "note": "The base model. A monitor and disk drives cost extra.",
   "id": "i004",
   "today": 5399.21
  },
  {
   "year": 1984,
   "name": "Apple Macintosh 128K",
   "price": 2495,
   "note": "The one from the Super Bowl advert.",
   "id": "i005",
   "today": 7534.0
  },
  {
   "year": 1985,
   "name": "Commodore Amiga 1000",
   "price": 1295,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i006",
   "today": 3776.5
  },
  {
   "year": 1993,
   "name": "Apple Newton MessagePad",
   "price": 699,
   "note": "Handwriting recognition that mostly did not.",
   "id": "i007",
   "today": 1517.87
  },
  {
   "year": 1998,
   "name": "Apple iMac G3",
   "price": 1299,
   "note": "The translucent one.",
   "id": "i008",
   "today": 2499.77
  },
  {
   "year": 1977,
   "name": "Atari 2600",
   "price": 199,
   "note": "Sold with two joysticks and Combat.",
   "id": "i009",
   "today": 1029.96
  },
  {
   "year": 1985,
   "name": "Nintendo Entertainment System",
   "price": 199,
   "note": "The Deluxe Set, with R.O.B. the robot.",
   "id": "i010",
   "today": 580.33
  },
  {
   "year": 1989,
   "name": "Nintendo Game Boy",
   "price": 89.99,
   "note": "Four AA batteries, no backlight.",
   "id": "i011",
   "today": 227.71
  },
  {
   "year": 1995,
   "name": "Sony PlayStation",
   "price": 299,
   "note": "Undercut the Saturn by a hundred dollars on stage.",
   "id": "i012",
   "today": 615.51
  },
  {
   "year": 1996,
   "name": "Nintendo 64",
   "price": 199,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i013",
   "today": 397.99
  },
  {
   "year": 2000,
   "name": "PlayStation 2",
   "price": 299,
   "note": "Also the cheapest DVD player most people could buy.",
   "id": "i014",
   "today": 544.67
  },
  {
   "year": 2001,
   "name": "Microsoft Xbox",
   "price": 299,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i015",
   "today": 529.7
  },
  {
   "year": 2006,
   "name": "PlayStation 3 (60GB)",
   "price": 599,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i016",
   "today": 932.08
  },
  {
   "year": 2013,
   "name": "PlayStation 4",
   "price": 399,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i017",
   "today": 537.27
  },
  {
   "year": 2017,
   "name": "Nintendo Switch",
   "price": 299,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i018",
   "today": 382.64
  },
  {
   "year": 2020,
   "name": "PlayStation 5",
   "price": 499,
   "note": "The disc edition.",
   "id": "i019",
   "today": 604.81
  },
  {
   "year": 1983,
   "name": "Motorola DynaTAC 8000X",
   "price": 3995,
   "note": "Ten hours to charge, thirty minutes of talk.",
   "id": "i020",
   "today": 12582.2
  },
  {
   "year": 1954,
   "name": "Regency TR-1 transistor radio",
   "price": 49.95,
   "note": "The first commercial transistor radio.",
   "id": "i021",
   "today": 583.57
  },
  {
   "year": 2001,
   "name": "Apple iPod (5GB)",
   "price": 399,
   "note": "A thousand songs in your pocket.",
   "id": "i022",
   "today": 706.86
  },
  {
   "year": 2007,
   "name": "Apple iPhone (8GB)",
   "price": 599,
   "note": "Cut to $399 two months later.",
   "id": "i023",
   "today": 906.23
  },
  {
   "year": 2010,
   "name": "Apple iPad (16GB Wi-Fi)",
   "price": 499,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i024",
   "today": 717.85
  },
  {
   "year": 2015,
   "name": "Apple Watch Sport (38mm)",
   "price": 349,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i025",
   "today": 461.9
  },
  {
   "year": 1999,
   "name": "TiVo (14 hour)",
   "price": 499,
   "note": "Plus a subscription, which was the controversial part.",
   "id": "i026",
   "today": 939.7
  },
  {
   "year": 1990,
   "name": "Adobe Photoshop 1.0",
   "price": 895,
   "note": "Mac only. One floppy disk.",
   "id": "i027",
   "today": 2148.75
  },
  {
   "year": 1995,
   "name": "Microsoft Windows 95",
   "price": 209,
   "note": "The full version; the upgrade was cheaper.",
   "id": "i028",
   "today": 430.24
  },
  {
   "year": 1983,
   "name": "Lotus 1-2-3",
   "price": 495,
   "note": "The spreadsheet that sold the IBM PC.",
   "id": "i029",
   "today": 1559.0
  },
  {
   "year": 1958,
   "name": "US first-class postage stamp",
   "price": 0.04,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i030",
   "today": 0.43
  },
  {
   "year": 1978,
   "name": "US first-class postage stamp",
   "price": 0.15,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i031",
   "today": 0.72
  },
  {
   "year": 1988,
   "name": "US first-class postage stamp",
   "price": 0.25,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i032",
   "today": 0.66
  },
  {
   "year": 2007,
   "name": "US first-class postage stamp",
   "price": 0.41,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i033",
   "today": 0.62
  },
  {
   "year": 1955,
   "name": "McDonald's hamburger",
   "price": 0.15,
   "note": "From the first franchised store in Des Plaines.",
   "id": "i034",
   "today": 1.76
  },
  {
   "year": 1964,
   "name": "Ford Mustang",
   "price": 2368,
   "note": "The base coupe at launch.",
   "id": "i035",
   "today": 23948.66
  },
  {
   "year": 1998,
   "name": "Furby",
   "price": 35,
   "note": "Resold for hundreds that Christmas.",
   "id": "i036",
   "today": 67.35
  },
  {
   "year": 1962,
   "name": "Polaroid Automatic 100 Land Camera",
   "price": 164.95,
   "note": "",
   "id": "i037",
   "today": 1710.51
  }
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}