since the 1950s and the 1960s technology has improved but their prices did not in fact their prices dropped massively prices went from the peak to the bottom in about 75 years of technology age.
a computer in the 1960s was restricted for governmental use only and it was quite expensive actually, a computer could have costed the government a couple of hundred thousand dollars at that time which was a lot for a piece of equipment nowadays you could buy a computer for a couple of hundred dollars fraction of that times price with much much more sophisticated technology.
an other example,In 1985 a 250 megabyte memory card costed about $20 000 now you can get a 2 terabyte that means a 2 000 000 mega byte memory card for $120.
In present
a computer in the 1960s was restricted for governmental use only and it was quite expensive actually, a computer could have costed the government a couple of hundred thousand dollars at that time which was a lot for a piece of equipment nowadays you could buy a computer for a couple of hundred dollars fraction of that times price with much much more sophisticated technology.
an other example,In 1985 a 250 megabyte memory card costed about $20 000 now you can get a 2 terabyte that means a 2 000 000 mega byte memory card for $120.
In present