Japanese exchange rates/cost of eating out (was Re: "The Mark-8 was an Intel 8008")

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Thu Jul 3 00:08:00 2003

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Fred Cisin wrote:

> > ~115 Yen to the US Dollar. It was 105 when I was there in 1996. It's
> > been better recently, it was worse formerly. I _think_ the US dollar
> > hit a low of 87 Yen or so around the time you are thinking of.
>
> It was about 250 yen to the dollar 20 years ago, when I bought my Epson
> RC20 (Z80 based wrist computer)

And 360 yen to the dollar back in the late 60s. One of the nice
things that Japanese restaurants did - and may still do - is
display plastic models of their servings at the entrance to the
place. Very useful for those of us who don't read Kanji.

> If you insist on avoiding the local cuisine, ANY place is too expensive.

Amen!
                                                - don

> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Thu Jul 03 2003 - 00:08:00 BST