Back in 1992 I bought Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5, followed by Turbo C++ for Windows 3.1, for around what would be 100 euros in today's money, by making use of their student prices, also available to highschool students.

I hat to get the money from different kinds of gigs while at high school.

Still, it is goes with your point, as the minimum wage would be around 300 euros when converted to today's money, if I get the proportions right.

However that is because I wanted to have the real deal, boxes, manuals and so forth, on a street bazaar those floppies would have been more accessible, as it was still the days when piracy reigned, and there wasn't any government agency checking on software licences compliance.