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> In the mid-80s, a very middle of the road PC or PC clone would probably be close to $10K in today's dollars. In 1988, you could get an XT clone for about $10
by technothrasher 3y ago
> In the mid-80s, a very middle of the road PC or PC clone would probably be close to $10K in today's dollars.
In 1988, you could get an XT clone for about $1000-$1500 in today's dollars or a really nice 386 clone for the equivalent of about $5000. A fully loaded fast 386 clone with monitor, 1 Meg of RAM, and hard drive would be about $7000.
(See this old Computer Shopper: https://archive.org/details/computershopperataridecember1988/page/n11/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/computershopperataridecember1988...)