Yeah. Mid to late 90s, thousands is high. Mea culpa. It's one of those things where the exact date matters because the prices dropped quickly. In 1982, I bought a 5MB hard drive for my company for $5K. (I didn't personally have one at the time.) At some point I bought a 40MB or so drive but don't remember when or what it cost.)
Machrone's Law was that the computer you want always costs $5,000 (in then dollars) which held pretty well for a long time. So, yeah, most of us probably spent $3-4K at a given point in time, modulo being able to bring older parts forward.
Machrone's Law was that the computer you want always costs $5,000 (in then dollars) which held pretty well for a long time. So, yeah, most of us probably spent $3-4K at a given point in time, modulo being able to bring older parts forward.