If you want to compare apples to apples, look at the Tecra 500CS from 1996 that was my first laptop in '97 - it cost me $700 practically new. (Then as now, ex-fleet machines are a great way to go, as long as you pick ones that were issued to people who hate computers.) For what this was doing half a decade later, it doesn't make the 1991 model look too shabby, although I concede nothing in those days had as much as one one-millionth of the price/performance of almost anything you can pick off a shelf today.

https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/manuals/Toshiba/Tecra/Toshi...