yeah, the pricetag to those things were astronomical.
I'm always a few years behind technology by design (and laziness/unawareness).
So long as you have patience, in a couple of years, the price markdown on the most sophicated of technologies of the day will be brought down some several hundred percents.
you can barely even give a pocket calculator away anymore (that goes the same for my transformers watch, and my pocket calculator watch, both now lost in the abyss, yet still the veritable "bee's knees" when I received it back then for free by some sort of promotion down there at the
Montgomery Ward's).