I found the invoice a while ago for the professional desktop publishing setup that my parents bought in 1993...a Quadra 800 mac, upgraded video memory, a flatbed scanner, b&w laser printer, a 20" monitor, a 14400 modem and some kind of fancy magneto optical drive or something for FedExing large files. Total price was $13k at the time.

Toss that $13k into an inflation calculator and sigh loudly. http://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1993?amount=13000

It's about $23k in 2019 dollars.

Sounds like the coolest computer in the city.

March 1989:

Mac IIcx, 16 MHz 68030, 4 MiB RAM, 80MiB HD: $7069

Radius two-page display (19”): $1495

Monochrome video card: $699

Extended Keyboard II: $229

A 20” monitor in 1993? That had to be super expensive!

Yeah it was definitely something geared towards graphics professionals...just found an old magazine ad for it, looks like it had a Trinitron tube and ran for $2700 at the time. It weighed an absolute ton. I certainly enjoyed the screen real estate for playing Sim City when my parents weren't working!

Also in googling for it I found it had been featured in Jurassic Park: https://productplacementblog.com/movies/supermatch-20-t-moni...

I remember drooling over the IIfx at $10k.