I agree. $2million is small. Where I work, I am regularly given budgets well over that to buy software or hardware.

At the time, 2 million was an appreciable sum. Maybe not to a government, but that wasn't chump change back then the way it is now.

That is true. I didn’t take into account inflation.

Sadly, I don't think any of us did or do.

In case anyone was wondering:

> $2,000,000 in 1991 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $4,759,500.73 today

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1991?amount=20000...

Second source: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=2%2C000%2C000....

> $4,816,077.27

Still not a lot.