Just as today is not a great time to buy a new computer or gaming console, neither was it a good time to purchase a new PC in the 1980s. The same was true for anyone who needed to fill a car up with gas. The former involved accusations that Japan was flooding RAM into the US market, which decreased its price, but new sanctions later increased the price. The latter saw geopolitical instability and conflict in major oil producing regions, as well as a pullback in demand from previous decades....
