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In the early 80's, people were spending more than $3k for an IBM 5150. For that price you got 64 kB of RAM, a floppy drive, and monochrome monitor. Today, lots
by criddell 2y ago
In the early 80's, people were spending more than $3k for an IBM 5150. For that price you got 64 kB of RAM, a floppy drive, and monochrome monitor.
Today, lots of people spend far more than that for gaming PCs. An Alienware R16 (unquestionably a consumer PC) with 64 GB of RAM starts at $4700.
It is an expensive computer, but the best mainstream computers at any particular time have always cost between $2500 and $5000.