I bought my first IBM compatible in 1987. It was built by a local company, Florida Computer Traders, and I paid $2300 for it. That is about $6400 adjusted for inflation.
I had recently gotten married and gotten a new job. I was working on a dBase3 program to do the invoicing for the company. I also was addicted to Empire...a computer game.
Anyway, I had gotten a large tax refund and spent most of it on the computer...without discussing it with my wife first. This did not go well.
You shouldn't have told her not to worry, it has all the memory you'll ever need...