Felix K wrote:IBM PS/1??? I hope you got them from work for free - because for private people, those machines were always twice as expensive as any comparable machine (at least in Germany).
My first PS/1 was purchased in 1992 during my first year in college. I bought it for $1,100. It had a 125 MB hard drive and 486 SX Pentium chip.
Since then, I worked on a multitude of EDS/IBM projects and have come upon many spare parts, from which I put together two more machines.
Yes, they were (and still are) a bit more expensive than the average machine. I guess, you buy brand name as much as merchandise itself. But they are no longer so much more expensive.
In any case, since 2002 I have only bought Dell computers.