My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Atari 800. The first Windows PC I bought was a Gateway 2000 with a tower case for around $3,500. It had 4 mb of memory and a 120 mb hard drive. It had a modem – maybe 1200 baud. I paid $199 to upgrade from a 14 inch monitor to a 15 inch monitor. It didn’t come with a sound card or CD-Rom drive. They were not standard then and I bought and installed them myself later. It did have 5 1/4″ and 3 1/2″ disk drives. The CPU was an Intel 486-DX2-50 which was so new it wasn’t even in their ads yet. The best thing about it was the tower case. It was metal and had enough room for four hard drives. I later bough 540 mb hard drives from Egghead for $399 and later $299.
I already had a printer. It was an Epson 9-pin dot matrix which had cost me about $350.
Sad! 