And the C64 price quickly sunk like a rock once the VIC-20 left the market. The T/S 1000 (the US ZX-81), its contemporary, was seen as cheap junk. I remember my

And the C64 price quickly sunk like a rock once the VIC-20 left the market. The T/S 1000 (the US ZX-81), its contemporary, was seen as cheap junk. I remember my parents being critical of the keyboard and the construction, and I don't think they were atypical. The T/S 2068 was better than the 1000 in every respect, but had compatibility issues with the Spectrum, and Timex's computer division had already suffered from the poor perception of their earlier home computers.