I haven't bought a new system for many years. As I recall my last new system cost about $1100, of which about $100 was the FedEx shipping charge from California! That was individual boards, drives etc. which I assembled to my own configuration.
That must have been around 1988 or so. What year was the big earthquake that hit the San Jose area about that time? It coincided with that because the shipment was delayed a week.
Compared to only a few years ago, computing power today is
incredibly cheap. Systems which sold for $2000+ new 10 years ago can now be found being given away, or at least sold for only a few bucks.
Considering that an average system, over here retails for NZ$2000-3000 (what's that in US dollars?),
Roughly $1200 - $1800 U.S.
You can get current exchange rates on the
Universal Currency Converter website.
[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 10-25-2003).]
