In @1991 I bought a Trek 2300 carbon/aluminum, with 600 Ultegra and down tube shifters for about $1300 at an LBS in the Bronx. You could probably get a comparable bike for the same price today...actually better, with 105 STI and way better frames and wheels than that bike...

Same with computers. I bought a $3000.00 "power desktop in 1996 with 16MB RAM and a 1 Gig HD, 17 inch monitor and the vid card I think was 2MB or something like that. It was about the highest spec'd computer you could get. The price points seem to stay the same, even though the stuff gets better.