A roommate I had in the Navy in the early '90s paid $1000 for a 1GB SCSI hard drive. Never mind the price of the controller card and cable.

I thought my 80286/12Mhz/4Meg with a 44Mb hard drive was the bomb. Don't forget the 9600 baud USRobotics modem! (All before Al Gore invented the interwebs)