That does indeed sound very cheap compared to the earlier time when there was infamously only a market for a couple of commercial computers in the whole world.
+1. Gorden Bell said a new computer category would enter the market every decade [1]. PDP-8 and later the PDP-11 were the quintessential minicomputer category makers. They were basically the microcomputer-equivalent in the 1970s. Both brought great cost reduction in their respective eras.