I bought my first PC in 1986, with a 12" amber screen, with a wopping 20Mb hard drive, 256Kb RAM, for the bargain price of R5800!
PC prices have not changed much, the PC's just got better. I bought my first computer, a P1 in about 1993. 560MB Hard Drive, 8MB Ram and a good screen. (At that time my dad, a programmer, told me I was wasting money on the hard drive, saying that I would never be able to fill a 560 MB hard drive in my lifetime

) That machine cost me R5500 (Does anybody remember the word "Math Co - processor"?
In 2006 I bought a Pentium Duo 1.8Ghz with a gig ram, 80 Gig Harddrive and all the other goodies for almost exactly the same price.
Oh, and I also still have my dads pc. It's a fully functioning 286 with 256kb ram and 20MB hard drive.