When I was in high school in the early 2000s I had a friend who told me his parents purchased a 386 when they first came on the market where I live and they pai

When I was in high school in the early 2000s I had a friend who told me his parents purchased a 386 when they first came on the market where I live and they paid around $15k. My jaw just dropped. Then my friend just started chuckling at his parents folly when looking back even at that time it was such an expensive paperweight. Heck, thinking about it now it probably came up in conversation because at the time I had a hobby of picking up old computers that people had thrown out and cobbling together the working parts and built a 386 and a 486 that way. Good times.