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>A C64 was $149 in 1985 And a 13" color monitor was $200, and the 1541 floppy disk drive was another $160. Even if you just bought the Commodore cassette deck
by NovemberWhiskey 7y ago
>A C64 was $149 in 1985
And a 13" color monitor was $200, and the 1541 floppy disk drive was another $160.
Even if you just bought the Commodore cassette deck and connected the computer up to your existing television, you were looking at $200 for a usable configuration.
Walmart will sell you a Lenovo Ideapad 130s (laptop with a 14" LCD, dual-core Celeron, 4GB RAM and 64GB solid-state storage) for $189.
- einr 7y agoEven if you just bought the Commodore cassette deck and connected the computer up to your existing television, you were looking at $200 for a usable configuration. Yes, that would be a basic configuration. Disk drives and color monitors are luxuries if we're talking about the lowest of low end here. In fact, the C64 is a bad example because it was not the cheapest system available, and many other low-end systems allowed you to use the standard cassette deck you already had as storage. The point is: Yes, you're right, a basic computer is cheaper today, but the price is roughly comparable and not anywhere near the realm of "unattainable except through years of saving up".