Just for yucks, I took a look at some old purchase orders for Sun engineering workstations (single-user). They used to sit on everyone's desk at a well-funded

Just for yucks, I took a look at some old purchase orders for Sun engineering workstations (single-user). They used to sit on everyone's desk at a well-funded engineering outfit. I saw an Ultra/1 (170MHz) for about $15K in 1996, and a Ultra 60 (360 MHz, 1GB RAM) for $19.8K in 1998. It's gotten a lot cheaper.