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They must have lost a lot of money on the ST, then, mine cost $800 new (monochrome) IIRC.
by davelnewton 11y ago
They must have lost a lot of money on the ST, then, mine cost $800 new (monochrome) IIRC.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoAs others have noted, the ST came out several years after the 68000, so the price had dropped some. It still was a non-trivial amount, though. The comparable Apple machine (monochrome, 68000 processor, 512K RAM) was selling for $2,800. Even given Apple's famously high margins and Jack Tramiel's equally famous "deal-making ability" (which some would call "gouging" :-)), it's clear that the ST retail pricing was pretty close to the bone.
- jacquesm 11y agoAs was the workmanship on some of them. I had to re-solder more than one joint on the ST's passing through one of the stores in Amsterdam (ditto for the C64 by the way). The ST was a very capable machine built on a very small budget. Compared to that other el-cheapo 68K of the time (the Sinclair QL, a 68008 based machine) it worked wonders and it was the first 32 bit capable machine that I could afford.