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The Commodore 64 is the best selling 8-bit computer in the world. Nobody really used the Spectrum outside the UK and eastern Europe.
by sys_64738 7y ago
The Commodore 64 is the best selling 8-bit computer in the world. Nobody really used the Spectrum outside the UK and eastern Europe.
- KC8ZKF 7y agoIt was sold as the Timex Sinclair in the USA. I was planning on buying one, but ended up with a used VIC-20 instead.
- Someone 7y agoThe Timex Sinclair was a variation on the ZX81, not a Spectrum.
- UncleSlacky 7y agoThe Timex Sinclair 2068 was the US Spectrum variant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_2068 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_2068
- sys_64738 7y agoCommodore USA had a trade in offer that you got 100$ off the cost of a C64 if you bought a new C64 and traded in the ZX81. You could pick up ZX81s for 50 bucks at the time. Meanwhile Commodore was flooded with ZX81s that they didn't know what to do with. Then the C128 came along and the needed Z80 chips. The rest is history.
- jaclaz 7y agoWell, I had many Sinclair's: ZX80 ZX81 Spectrum (original) QL <- the best less known computer of all times Spectrum+ (first one broke and I still had a lot of small programs for it) while living in Italy (please read as not UK, not Eastern Europe) and there were at the time lots of (italian) users besides magazines, clubs and what not about them. The C64 came a little later than the spectrum (a question of months, but those were fast moving times about computers) in 1982, and everyone that already had a computer in 1981 were loosely divided in two: 1) those that had a ZX81 before all went for the spectrum sometimes even pre-ordering it or having it bought in the UK 2) a number of the VIC-20 users (that frankly was worse - keyboard aside - than the ZX81) went for the spectrum There was also a huge difference pricewise, the Spectrum was around 400,000 the C64 was 973,500 Lire (think of 200 Euro vs. 500 Euro).