Comment by ghaff

I don't remember what I paid for PC and printer, but I'm sure my IBM PC clone (with dual floppies) was well into the $4K plus range in today's dollars in 1982 or so. And software wasn't cheap either. A hard disk would have added multiple thousands of dollars. (Where I was working paid $5K in then dollars for an Apple III hard disk.) When I went to grad school a couple of years later, I was one of very few people who owned a PC.