Yeah, IT Used to Cost A Lot

If your memory of those first PCs you bought back in the 1980s (if you're that old) were as expensive as a car, well, your memory serves you right. Just what kind of computer you could get for that money now is offered up by a blog post by The Atlantic's Matthew Yglesias.

Maybe President Bush's proposed $65.5 billion federal IT budget for fiscal 2008 (nearly twice what it was eight years ago) isn't such a good deal.