Eh, I don't know about that. Computers were a LOT simpler back then. You could make one yourself from parts. Try that today.
And by "from parts" I don't mean buying a video card, motherboard, etc. I mean buying a bag of resistors, capacitors, and a circuit board and wiring and soldering it together yourself.
This is nothing. Apple used to sell $5000 computers.
In 1985 dollars.
Computers took far more labor to produce under the prevailing social conditions in 1985 than they do now, so they inevitably tended to cost more
Eh, I don't know about that. Computers were a LOT simpler back then. You could make one yourself from parts. Try that today.
And by "from parts" I don't mean buying a video card, motherboard, etc. I mean buying a bag of resistors, capacitors, and a circuit board and wiring and soldering it together yourself.