Just surfing around, I'm reminded by a History of Computing web site that when the first IBM PC was introduced it "came with a 16,000 character memory, keyboard from an IBM electric typewriter, and a connection for tape cassette player for $1265." There's no mention of a display and as I recall it didn't come with one. A typical display of the era, included or not, would have been monochrome with a 15" diagonal or smaller.
For just a little less money - $1,199 - today you can buy an iMac with a 20" color display, a billion characters of memory and a 250GB hard drive, not to mention such goodies as Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and a webcam.
OK, so it's not a lot cheaper, but it's a whole lot more.
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