No it was super ridiculously cheap.
My A500 had 5 MEGABYTES of directly addressable ram + a hard drive.
My A2000 had 9 MEGABYTES of directly addressable ram + a ridiculous amount of HD storage.
And stereo DMA fed hardware double-buffered interrupt driven music.
And 32-bit multitasking.
Add up how much that cost to do on a Bill Gates compatible PC. Around $8 billion (google translation: IMPOSSIBLE in 1989)
Now any price I paid was fantastically cheap.
No, my A2000 was fantastically cheap ($45).
Now I have to spend idiotic amounts of money to upgrade it.
Indivision ECS, SCSI controller (not to mention that none of my more recent SCSI drives will work with it, like my SCSI Ultra 2 Wide drives or my U320s) obscenely priced accelerators, way over-priced compact flash adapter, the list just goes on.
For what I'm going to have to pay for all this I could buy a couple cheap X86 computers.
But hen, who says any of us has sensible spending habits?