1983 Space Saver Microwave Price: $579.99
We paid less than $579 for our GE Profile a few years about.
Using his referenced calculator, that 1983 $579 would be over $1700 today!
Have a Maytag microwave I bought in Dec of 1988. Still works just fine.
I do bookkeeping on a 1991 computer—DOS system with Dac Easy accounting software. Uses a tractor feed Panasonic printer. Have had as many as 19 clients on it at one time. Have a Panasonic Fax about 1990 vintage. Use it all the time. I still prepare W-2’s & 1099’s on a MANUAL Royal typewriter that I got in about 1970.
Have a 1965 Westinghouse ref/freezer. Have a matching pair==General Electric ref/freezer & upright freezer. All work very well. Newest item is a 2008 Whirlpool upright freezer I bought the day after Obama was elected. No computer—all manual settings.
Have a Western Holly gas stove—larger than today’s stoves, with an oven, a pan storage alongside the oven, a tray inside the pan storage for pan lids. It has 4 burners & a griddle in the middle. Chrome top & white elsewhere. Paid $65 for it used in May of 1966. Dormant now, but am selling this property & taking it with me to install in new property. These are getting bought out of estate sales & being rehabbed with ‘retro look’& RESOLD for as high as $10,000.
Drive a 1979 Buick station wagon with a 403 Oldsmobile engine (it came that way) that I have owned almost 36 years. Daily driver. Has over 211,000 miles.
Own a 1976 Chevy Dually pick up truck with 454 gas engine. It has over 345,000 miles on it & I still haul my 4 horse trailer with it. Bought it used 31 years ago with 90,000 miles on it.
As you can see, I don’t like the new stuff. Will continue to epair what I have as long as I possibly can.
Hope your $579 Profile lasts longer than my $1,300 GE Profile Advantium did. I bought all new GE Profile appliances for my kitchen twelve years ago. They are all dead and gone now. I will never buy GE again.