One of Jerry Pournelle's aphorisms was "The computer you want costs $5000". That was correct for about the first decade of personal computing. The first real m

One of Jerry Pournelle's aphorisms was "The computer you want costs $5000". That was correct for about the first decade of personal computing. The first real move downward from that price point occurred with the simultaneous emergence of cheap PC clones and the Amiga/ST (the Mac wouldn't move similarly downmarket for another half decade, and arguably not for a full decade).