$800 per year! LOL
This is cultural differences at work. When we (Croatians) talk about salary it's always meant as monthly salary, while in the US is more natural to talk in terms of yearly salary. So, in Croatia it's around $800 per month. On $800 per year I don't think I would be able to afford a computer at all and would probably do something else in life.
And yes, Shawn, we do have running water and electricity. :-) And we were using personal computers at the same time when the west was using them. I was programming IBM and HP mainframes way back in the early 70's and purchased my KIM-1 single board computer only a month after it was available in Germany. There was a small problem of smuggling personal computers into the country because communust government in its eternal wisdom did not allow people to import them but it just made it more fun. Smuggling various goods from the west was a national pasttime then... ;-)
Actuaally... it is rather sobering when one thinks of all the people on this planet who are surviving on far less than $800 per year. More like $800 per decade. But that's another and rather sad topic to discuss...
Barney
This is cultural differences at work. When we (Croatians) talk about salary it's always meant as monthly salary, while in the US is more natural to talk in terms of yearly salary. So, in Croatia it's around $800 per month. On $800 per year I don't think I would be able to afford a computer at all and would probably do something else in life.
And yes, Shawn, we do have running water and electricity. :-) And we were using personal computers at the same time when the west was using them. I was programming IBM and HP mainframes way back in the early 70's and purchased my KIM-1 single board computer only a month after it was available in Germany. There was a small problem of smuggling personal computers into the country because communust government in its eternal wisdom did not allow people to import them but it just made it more fun. Smuggling various goods from the west was a national pasttime then... ;-)
Actuaally... it is rather sobering when one thinks of all the people on this planet who are surviving on far less than $800 per year. More like $800 per decade. But that's another and rather sad topic to discuss...
Barney