{"id":4207,"date":"2013-03-06T10:53:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2013-03-06T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:53:05","slug":"down-memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4207","title":{"rendered":"Down memory lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 March 1983 the CD was launched it the US and Canada (it was October the previous year in Japan). Australia was not far behind. I bought the second CD player to be sold in Canberra, or so I was told by the retailer, on 25 May 1983. It was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sony_CDP-101\" title=\"Wikipedia article\">Sony CDP-101<\/a>. The other day I stumbled across the receipt:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sonycdp101receipt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sonycdp101receipt.jpg\" alt=\"Purchase receipt - Sony CDP-101 - 1983\" width=\"600\" height=\"918\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sonycdp101receipt.jpg 600w, http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sonycdp101receipt-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Expensive  , huh? According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/websitedbs\/d3310114.nsf\/home\/consumer+price+index+inflation+calculator\">Australian Bureau of Statistic&#8217;s inflation calculator<\/a>, that $1,199 in June 1983 is equivalent to $3,494 in December 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 March 1983 the CD was launched it the US and Canada (it was October the previous year in Japan). Australia was not far behind. I bought the second CD player to be sold in Canberra, or so I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4207\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}