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How did (e.g.) Apple II pricing compare to equivalent-ish, contemporaneous models from Commodore or Tandy? Apple ][: $1,298 Commodore PET: $795 Tandy TRS-80:
by dfxm12 7y ago
How did (e.g.) Apple II pricing compare to equivalent-ish, contemporaneous models from Commodore or Tandy?
Apple ][: $1,298
Commodore PET: $795
Tandy TRS-80: $600
At these prices, in 1977, only the Apple had color graphics.
- hsitz 7y agoI was one of the young kids (age 15) who saved up and bought a TRS-80 in 1979. Apple IIe was definitely better, but more expensive. PET was a bit of an odd bird, with chiclet square calculator keys and built in small monitor, no real keyboard. Apple II was the only one that was color, and if I recall it had bitmapped graphics with 256 x 192 resolution. TRS-80 had crude 48 x 128 graphics. My school had an Apple II for use by some science students, and I did some fooling around on it. It was definitely much nicer. But TRS-80 was mostly a tool to learn about computers; somehow I scrounged up resources (probably guided by magazines), got a CPU manual, and did some simple Z80 machine language programming, later got an assembler.