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[CombJelly]

"uh...I recall the very first computers cost over a million so you might be on to something...NOT!"

The very first computers cost well in excess of that, once you adjusted for inflation. Given that they were hand built, one off units, that should come as no great surprise.

I assume you mean the first Intel based computers. If you ignore things like the few that Intel or Busicom produced and things like the Mark 8, the first Intel-based computer that sold in any numbers would be the Altair 8800. A base unit sold for $495 in 1975. That base unit was a case and power supply, processor board and a control board that had the front panel switches. Memory boards were extra, as were any peripherals. Did I mention you also would have to solder it together? Counting for inflation, the $495 is equivalent to ~$1850 now. The $100 or so Intel was selling 8080s to Altair for is about $375 in todays dollars.

Okay, maybe you are referring to PCs and not the S100 products. IIRC, the basic IBM PC sold for something like $2000 in 1981. I think that was without a monitor, video card or a floppy drive and only 64k of RAM. As far as what that would be in current dollars, I leave that as an exercise for the student...

You don't have the slighest clue about the history of the industry, do you?