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>>My first machine when I started do this for Shaw (1987) was a PC-AT with a 35 Mb hard drive, CGA monitor, 2 Mb of extended (or was it expanded) memory. I saw the invoice...$10K. 4 years ago my P200/MMX (16 Mb/2 gb hard drive) with 15" montior and printer was $2K. Now for less than that I can probably buy both the machines I need. Ain't technology wonderful?< s >
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>I just priced out a new PC for me.
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>1 Ghz
>512 Meg RAM
>DVD
>40 Gig harddrive
>floppy
>Sound Card
>NIC
>Video card
>(No monitor...I'm retiring a PC)
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>The price is right around $1000.

That's about what I've seen too.