Lately there's been a lot of discussion about pricing and configurations in the early '90s. I found the details of a system the a resident of New Zealand bought August 1993 down in Chistchurch. Attached are the sales quotes/brochure and printout of the testing done on the system before the customer received the system. In the end it cost the customer around $NZ3000 including sales tax.The system was intialy purchased with Texas Inst 486DLC33 and Cyrix FasMath33, had full multi-media kit(sound card/caddy loading cdrom combo) monitor, keyboard, mouse, joystick, printer and tons of software as listed on the brochure/quote page along with some games. This would have been considered quite a reasonably speced system down here at that time.

With the mobo having the option of a proper 486 cpu a few years later the system was updated to a 486DX2/66, larger hdd, vlb video, modem and some more ram. They also updated to Windows 95. The original purchaser obviously gave a bit of thought when buying the system initially.

I picked this system up less monitor and printer for $50 plus shipping a few years ago and it is running perfect. It has the original matching keyboard and mouse. Luckily the seller also sent the original cpu with math co-pro plus a bonus AMD386DX/DXL-40 cpu to add to my collection. Also came with mobo manual.

PC General was a local outfit that I got my original 286/16 from late 1990 so there was a bit on nostalgia in the 486 purchase. My 286 was rock solid. They had branches in all the major cities here. PC General went down hill though in about 1996 due to shady practices like reusing old hardware and treating their staff unsatisfactorily.

Anyone else got genuine paper work from back in the day?