TI99/4A Emulator Online

[Firefox]

Yeah, Pinterest is full of funny old computing stuff:



Now there's no excuses to become a programmer!

That doesn't seem a very good salary, even for the early 80s!

[PeterJ]

I thought that too [mention]Firefox[/mention]. Looking at this, the average salary for men was around £154 per week for men, and £99 for women in 1982.

If you average those out and multiply by 52 you get around £6,500.

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hans ... eekly-wage

[PROSM]

This advert looks to be from the very early 70's though; if you look in the background, you can see posters which mention the shift to decimal currency (which occurred on the 15th of February, 1971).

According to the Bank of England's inflation calculator, £2000 in 1970 would be worth around £31,171 today.

[PeterJ]

That would make more sense [mention]PROSM[/mention]. 1976 average for men was £70 per week, so that's £3640. So, assuming it's earlier than that it sounds better. Good spot with the posters!

[Juan F. Ramirez]

I see signing a job contract in the computing sector in 1976 was a wild thing!

[Firefox]

This advert looks to be from the very early 70's though; if you look in the background, you can see posters which mention the shift to decimal currency (which occurred on the 15th of February, 1971).

According to the Bank of England's inflation calculator, £2000 in 1970 would be worth around £31,171 today.

Sharp eyes! My attention may have been diverted somehow...

That makes more sense, then.