Computer Prices - Ye Olde Days

While cleaning up my hard drive, I found this gem from about sixteen years ago.  It is astounding how much more bang for the buck we get in computing now compared to the mid nineties.

At the top of the list is a Gateway Pentium model with a CPU running at 200Mhz, less than a tenth of CPU speeds today. 16MB of RAM, the short term memory of a computer, seems insignificant to the 16GB and higher RAM found on many computers today. A 2.5GB, fairly large hard drive then, is less than most memory sticks today and a far cry from the 500GB hard drives sold with some computers. All of this in 1996 for the price of $3900.